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"I wrote music as soon as I knew notation."
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"As I fingered my way through the songs, I felt my worries slough away. My music has always been the best remedy for my dark moods. As I sang, even my bruises seemed to pain me less."
"Miranda raised her eyebrows. Apparently she hadn't figured me for a country music fan. I liked her for that."
"Music is more than just listening to it. People use the music for them protection at times."
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"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."
"The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles."
"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."
"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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