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Gavin Bryars

"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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"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."

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

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"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."

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"The right of petition is an old undoubted household right of the blood of England, which runs in our veins."

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

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"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."

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

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"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."

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Amber Hurdle

"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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"I don't see on television the kind of blood and guts and body parts blown apart that maybe you're referring to, but it certainly is in that BATMAN feature and I found it very offensive."

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"I am writing something which I find satisfying and which I am prepared to put my name to as a composer."
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"I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles."
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"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."
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"Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century."
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"I currently spend a lot of time thinking about orchestration and every detail of a piece."
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"Over the years I have tried to develop something which is technically assured."
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"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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"I work very fast, keeping the ideas flowing but making sure they come out the way I intended."
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"Still, American composers working in France have had a pretty hard time."
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