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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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"Imagine a brilliant rose of pure love in your heart. Next, see a twinkling flower within the hearts of all you meet."
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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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"You must first clearly see a thing in your mind before you can do it."
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"See the things you want as already yours. Think of them as yours, as belonging to you, as already in your possession."
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"I'm thinking in terms of a point of departure, a field of action for performers to express an expressive need of mine which hopefully the context of music would convey."
Music

"I really write for people."
People

"But nevertheless, it's music ultimately that matters in opera, and opera is a piece of music reaching out as a vision in sound reaching out to the world."
Music

"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."
Music

"We need to open up the future. We also need to keep everything valuable from the past."
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"Well, let me, first of all, say, that as a microtonal composer, I've never been much of a theorist."
Composer

"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

"The way that I got involved with microtonal music was, frankly, through jazz."
Music

"Well, the very best operas are the ones written by the very best composers."
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"In other words, I think that if an audience listens to something as an experience of how in tune it is or something of that kind, that the whole point is somehow being missed, and the music has failed."
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