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"My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter."
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"Share your ideas with people of like-mind and get motivated by their encouragements and experiences."
"Don't disregard your so-called "stupid ideas." They may be inspired thoughts and high-potential opportunities. Whatcha gonna do?"
"The theatre is the involuntary reflex of the ideas of the crowd."
"Filmgoers are starved for new ideas, voices and visions."
"A final proof of our ideas can only be obtained by detailed studies on the alterations produced in the amino acid sequence of a protein by mutations of the type discussed here."
"I would rather read a poorly structured story that has fresh ideas than a tightly structured one with cliches."
"I'm always storing away phrases and ideas and things that I think might turn into songs."
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"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."
"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."
"The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names."
"People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English music, but that English music is becoming more like me."
"I'm not a music lover in the sense that I look for something to have on. I've never had that attitude to music."
"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."
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