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"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."

"Great songs don't grow on trees, yet lots of songs have been written on great trees."
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"This continuity of sound and form was something that I became really interested in from working with Ligeti. He was always going on about how form has to be continuous."

"There will have to be times when I'm not conducting because I'm composing. I haven't solved that problem, and perhaps I never will."
Will,

"Anyone who composes and conducts at the same time is immediately suspect, because he must be faking one or the other."
Time,

"The underlying process in Northern music tends to be slower and continuous, whatever's happening on the surface; in Southern music the underlying process is always faster."

"With American orchestras, in particular, because they play in such huge halls, getting a true pianissimo is very hard."
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