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"I was encouraged by my mother and, to a lesser extent, by my father."
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"I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable."
Music
"Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them."
Art
"It's amazing how fast generations lose sight of other generations. One of the first things the young composers who come to work with me say is that they want to write music people will like, instead of gaining their credentials by being rejected by the audience."
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"The artist is something of an outsider in America. I have always felt that America does not value its artists, certainly not in the sense that the Europeans do."
America
"America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist."
Talent
"We think the Puritans always dressed in black and white, which they didn't. They loved very bright colors. And there were other differences in perceptions that gave one a very different view of them."
Colors
"People in very high places suddenly fall, and we are always surprised because we don't factor in the basic element that they're humans and, therefore, they are flawed and have weaknesses."
People
"The performances of my works in the last 10 years are probably equal to all the previous years put together. There are so many venues now and there is a completely new public for opera that's grown up outside of the traditional core opera public."
Now
"I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references."
Music
"You can't possibly predict what will last or not. But once you attempt to write for the ages, you're doomed."
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"A mother is the most important blessing of your life."
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"A mother's love is more beautiful than any fresh flower."
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"The longest tenured First LOVE and Greatest TEACHER, in-fact life long, is none the other, but Mother."
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"I recently saw the movie about Ray Charles, and there's a scene where he falls down and the mother doesn't help him. She says, I don't want anyone to treat you like a cripple. I've fallen down before, and Molly will say, get up and just go."
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"I'd like to be a wife and mother. I guess I'll know Mr. Right when I meet him."
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"She is incredibly fit, but we remind staff that she's not just the monarch, but our mother."
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"I'm more of a guy's girl. I like having a beer in a bar, and I don't bicker or sit down and do my nails. But I have two sisters and a mother, and we're Latin, so we gossip."
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"I just cleared the slate and thought of her as a mother and went from there."
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"We never got anything out of the recordings. I'm still as broke as I was when I was with the Mothers."
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"My mother was the total influence. My father was what we call a nomadic person; he was a wanderer."
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