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

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"Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not."

"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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