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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."
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"We need to open up the future. We also need to keep everything valuable from the past."
Future
"I think a lot of composers get into trouble just making up a plot and expecting an audience to follow that."
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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 think I was first to do live performances on a modern electronic sound synthesizer."
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"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."
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"I want the audience to be so involved in the sweep of the music."
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"Well, opera began with an intent to resuscitate Greek drama, that is, modern opera as we know it."
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"What's important for me is to communicate the vision that I have in sound with the audience that's hearing it."
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"Well, the very best operas are the ones written by the very best composers."
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"Pianists call me a composer, composers call me a pianist. The classicists think me a futurist, and the futurists call me a reactionary."
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"Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism."
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"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."
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"I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena."
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"Other composers have taken this particular technique much further than I in the meantime, with the result that the Law of Diminishing Returns has begun to apply."
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"The composers could no longer direct all performances in person, and so the responsibility of interpreting their works in the spirit in which they had been conceived was placed upon conductors."
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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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"Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven varies the melody, harmony and rhythms so beautifully."
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"Composers are not all good conductors."
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"The Russian composers, especially, tricked the symphony orchestra into the kind of dynamic, rhythmic thing."
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