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"I think art can reflect tragedy."
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"Poetry most often communicates emotions, not directly, but by creating imaginatively the grounds for those emotions. It therefore communicates something more than the emotion; only by means of that something more does it communicate the emotion at all."
"We often forget to draw a new picture because we are so busy criticizing other paintings."
"A beautiful poem is nothing but a mirror of philosophy through which we can see life's pure beauty."
"Poets create a beautiful blue sky where you can fly with wings of imagination and find yourself again and again."
"The object of art is to enhance the beauty, imaginations and joy of life."
"A picture may be worth a thousand words, but those well-arranged words are worth a multi-million-dollar motion picture."
"Literature tries to express the intricate inner beauties of life. Philosophy tries to explain the intricate inner beauties and conflicts of thoughts."
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"Jazz is not the popular culture. Jazz is in the same position in our culture as classical music. A very small minority of people really love it."
"Eighty percent of my pieces gravitate towards an A, as a tonal thing, not at the beginning, but somewhere in it."
"The structural thinking I use in the concert hall is unnecessary to most film projects, and most film composers make better use of the enormous range of pop and other materials and techniques required of them than I probably would, faced with the same challenge."
"The French Revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Don't build on the past. There is no past."
"I think it's good for the composer to teach because you always have new students and you have to begin at the beginning and make things clear."
"I find respect for a mediocre British composer, as opposed to a really good American, ridiculous because they automatically respect a composer if he's from England."
"You become a great composer when you win a Pulitzer. But I think that now it's a completely meaningless award."
"What I think of as style - and I've gotten to this over years of really thinking about it - is that style is the unconscious choices I make."
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