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"My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter."
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"It is easy to destroy a book, but an idea once implanted has roots no man can utterly destroy."
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"I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right."
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"Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free."
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"Good acting is about being as natural and calm as possible. These days producers have such definite ideas that you have to be prepared to do whatever they ask."
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"You've never lived what you are thinking, and that isn't good. Only the ideas we actually live are of any value."
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"If Pakistan has any ideas of annexing any part of our territories by force, she should think afresh. I want to state categorically that force will be met with force and aggression against us will never be allowed to succeed."
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"Ideas that don't even exist have the power to destroy the world."
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"A major fault, for example, is the fact that, along with the materialist principle, Darwin introduced into his theory of evolution reactionary Malthusian ideas."
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"Ray is very secretive about his ideas - why not, the times that the Kinks have been ripped off, especially in the early years, it makes you a little bit cautious about telling anybody what you're doing. And that's understandable."
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"Too often new ideas are studied and analyzed until they are suffocated."
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"My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces."
Theatre
"My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter."
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"I think there are influences that you open the door to, and influences that come under the door."
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"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."
Music
"In the end it doesn't matter what you do."
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"This sounds horribly pretentious, but I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it."
Music
"I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism."
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"I don't think there is much American music."
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"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."
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"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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