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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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"Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to."

"One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!"

"I don't find slashing and blood flying everywhere to be scary. I just find it repulsive."

"I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be."

"Every gesture is a gesture from the blood, every expression a symbolic utterance... Everything is of the blood, of the senses."

"Either we're going to solve this by realistic negotiation or there will be blood on the border."
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"Like an apparently strict musical form it breaks the five minute whole into its structural parts - a descriptive preamble, the action of taking the cards, the development of the cards' manipulation and the revelation of what has been achieved."

"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."

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

"As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as I had taught for a time in art colleges the idea of writing music in response to painting was not alien."

"I remember once, when I started writing for the alto saxophone, a saxophonist told me to think of it as being like a cross between an oboe and a viola, but louder."

"The academic area of new music or modern music festivals is not something which attracts me at all."
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