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"One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things."
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"Music is the primordial language of life. That is why we love it so much. Actually every animal can hear and understand music better than we do."
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"The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names."
"I think there are influences that you open the door to, and influences that come under the door."
"I'm not a music lover in the sense that I look for something to have on. I've never had that attitude to music."
"This sounds horribly pretentious, but I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it."
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"Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it."
"The theatre only knows what it's doing next week, not like the opera, where they say: What are we going to do in five years' time? A completely different attitude."
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