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"When Philip Glass asked me if I would be interested in doing a new recording of Jesus' Blood he assumed that I would do something similar to the first version and wanted to know what other pieces would be on the same CD."
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"One way to get high blood pressure is to go mountain climbing over molehills."

"It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme."

"Here he tells us that the new birth is first of all 'not of blood'. You don't get it through the blood stream, through heredity. Your parents can give you much, but they cannot give you this."

"Like a cyclone, imperialism spins across the globe; militarism crushes peoples and sucks their blood like a vampire."

"Social democracy... is only the advance guard of the proletariat, a small piece of the total working masses; blood from their blood, and flesh from their flesh."

"Twice a week I would receive injections or IV's of Factor VIII which clotted the blood and then broke it down."

"What happens is that the system builds many inferior blood vessels in the eye to take the place of the vessels that are dying. And those blood vessels are not up to the task. And they bleed. They hemorrhage and they cover the eye inside with blood."

"I've been lucky-my looks haven't put me into one category. I don't look like a blue blood. I don't look like a criminal. I don't look like anything."
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"The academic area of new music or modern music festivals is not something which attracts me at all."

"I am writing something which I find satisfying and which I am prepared to put my name to as a composer."

"It makes sense to invest in new work. It's almost like having a research department in a scientific laboratory. You have to try things out. You'll make some bad mistakes. Some things will fail but at least you'll energise the organisation."

"It's rather like attending a university seminar where you are talking to a few gifted specialists who deliver a paper to an audience of their peers. That's one way of making music."
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