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"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."
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"Miranda raised her eyebrows. Apparently she hadn't figured me for a country music fan. I liked her for that."
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"Music is the language of the soul and the expression of deep inner feelings."
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"Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God."
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"What is my definition of jazz? 'Safe sex of the highest order."
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"They say that the eyes of some paintings can follow you around the room, a fact that I doubt, but I am wondering whether some music can follow you for ever."
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"No one can any longer write in the fat style of Strauss. That was killed by Stravinsky. He stripped the body of much of its clothes. Music is the craft of building structures with sound and that is what Stravinsky represents."
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"Music is healing and soothing. It is the universal language of kindness and love."
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"Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish."
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"There's so much excellent new music around that I can't afford to buy it all and I haven't the time to review as much as I'd like. I can't remember a better time to be a musician or to listen to music!"
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"If I would have listened, if I would have understood diabetes like I understood music, maybe these things wouldn't have happened."
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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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"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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"It's not important to me to found a school; it's not important to me to have disciples."
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"We need it to capture the energy of contemporary life."
Life

"I really write for people."
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"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."
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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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"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."
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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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