"Well, let me, first of all, say, that as a microtonal composer, I've never been much of a theorist."

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"Well, let me, first of all, say, that as a microtonal composer, I've never been much of a theorist."

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"I've just simply used what I've used because of the great, great expressive potential of it."

Expressive

"If you look at the timing of many of the Greek dramas from the theatrical point of view, it's all off, and I think the reason for that is that music played a very important part."

Music

"Nevertheless, one doesn't have time to think, oh, well, this is a quarter tone sharp, or flat."

Time

"I think the composer and production staff of an opera have a real responsibility to use visual elements of all kinds to make clear to the American audience, at any rate, exactly what is going on."

Visualization

"I think one of the greatest enemies in the use of technology, however, is the idea that if you use the technology you have to throw other things out of the window."

Technology

"I think I was first to do live performances on a modern electronic sound synthesizer."

Performance

"However, yes, especially as one gets older, you know, you really hope that your music will become more generally available, even though some of the performances might be riddled with faults."

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"Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast."

"There are no black film composers doing the likes of Star Wars, doing the likes of E.T., doing the likes of Jurassic Park. There are none, nor will there ever be one. That ain't about to happen!"

"Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span of several centuries."

"I loved Hendrix. I mean, really, really loved him. As if he were one of the great classical composers. And he was. That's how I saw him."

"Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers."

"Perhaps two million years ago the creatures of a planet in some remote galaxy faced a musical crisis similar to that which we earthly composers face today."

"The Russian composers, especially, tricked the symphony orchestra into the kind of dynamic, rhythmic thing."

"The Western musical canon came about not merely by accumulation, but by opposition and subversion, both to the ruling powers on whom composers depended for their livelihoods and to other musics."

"When I began, the guitar was en-closed in a vicious circle. There were no composers writing for the guitar, be-cause there were no virtuoso guitarists."

"I've heard though that there is a younger generation of tonal French composers who are reacting with vigour."

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"I've just simply used what I've used because of the great, great expressive potential of it."

"If you look at the timing of many of the Greek dramas from the theatrical point of view, it's all off, and I think the reason for that is that music played a very important part."

"Nevertheless, one doesn't have time to think, oh, well, this is a quarter tone sharp, or flat."

"We need it to capture the energy of contemporary life."

"Well, the very best operas are the ones written by the very best composers."

"I really write for people."

"I think the composer and production staff of an opera have a real responsibility to use visual elements of all kinds to make clear to the American audience, at any rate, exactly what is going on."

"I think one of the greatest enemies in the use of technology, however, is the idea that if you use the technology you have to throw other things out of the window."

"I think I was first to do live performances on a modern electronic sound synthesizer."

"However, yes, especially as one gets older, you know, you really hope that your music will become more generally available, even though some of the performances might be riddled with faults."