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Harrison Birtwistle

"My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter."

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A.E. Samaan

"A solid idea is a firm foundation of a universe construction."

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A.E. Samaan

"Sometimes I have a good idea, something I wish I could remember, and instead of writing it down, commit it to my memory only to disappear when I needed it. Write your ideas as they come, if you wait it will be too long and you may not recover it. It may get destroyed as it is to seed to and fro in the ever rushing river of our thoughts."

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A.E. Samaan

"Ideas are infinite, original, and lively divine thoughts."

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A.E. Samaan

"I'll come in with a string of riffs and direct the musical ideas. But you still need a band and their input to make the ideas come alive. You can't underestimate band chemistry."

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A.E. Samaan

"A lot of the lyrical ideas do have a lot of meaning in a way, although it is somewhat abstracted."

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A.E. Samaan

"One of the ideas behind doing this acoustic record is that I didn't want to have to produce it by committee."

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A.E. Samaan

"Ideas are seeds of existence in absolute emptiness.Creative words are the building blocks of such ideas."

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A.E. Samaan

"Opinions of the masses kill the 'extra' in an 'extraordinary' idea."

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A.E. Samaan

"The inventors of tools enhance civilization,but the author of ideas enables them to invent."

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A.E. Samaan

"In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails."

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Harrison Birtwistle
"It's the irrational things that interest me."

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Harrison Birtwistle
"My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter."

Ideas

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Harrison Birtwistle
"This sounds horribly pretentious, but I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it."

Music

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Harrison Birtwistle
"When I was confronted with official tuition, the academic thing, I could see no relationship whatever between that and the music I'd been writing since I was 11."

Music

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Harrison Birtwistle
"I wrote music as soon as I knew notation."

Music

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Harrison Birtwistle
"My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces."

Theatre

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Harrison Birtwistle
"There are rhythmic ideas which sometimes only work up to a point. In writing there are moments when it just comes off the page, it's not just a collection of notes."

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Harrison Birtwistle
"Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it."

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Harrison Birtwistle
"When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18."

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Harrison Birtwistle
"The theatre only knows what it's doing next week, not like the opera, where they say: What are we going to do in five years' time? A completely different attitude."

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