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Harrison Birtwistle

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

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

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"Music is such a problem in the time it takes."
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"I wrote music as soon as I knew notation."
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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."
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