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Harrison Birtwistle

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

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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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"I don't have ideas so much as there are things which constantly evolve... there are various threads or layers, if you like, which change."
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"This sounds horribly pretentious, but I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it."
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"In the end it doesn't matter what you do."
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"My attitude to writing is like when you do wallpapering, you remember where all the little bits are that don't meet. And then your friends say: It's terrific!"
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"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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"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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"When I dealt with set theory, I could never make it be the music that I wanted."
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"My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter."
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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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