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"I think a lot of composers get into trouble just making up a plot and expecting an audience to follow that."
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"There's almost always a point in a book where something happens that triggers the rest of the plot."
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"I think a lot of composers get into trouble just making up a plot and expecting an audience to follow that."
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"I'm thinking in terms of a point of departure, a field of action for performers to express an expressive need of mine which hopefully the context of music would convey."
Music
"I really write for people."
People
"But nevertheless, it's music ultimately that matters in opera, and opera is a piece of music reaching out as a vision in sound reaching out to the world."
Music
"However, yes, especially as one gets older, you know, you really hope that your music will become more generally available, even though some of the performances might be riddled with faults."
Music
"We need to open up the future. We also need to keep everything valuable from the past."
Future
"Well, let me, first of all, say, that as a microtonal composer, I've never been much of a theorist."
Composer
"The way that I got involved with microtonal music was, frankly, through jazz."
Music
"Well, the very best operas are the ones written by the very best composers."
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"In other words, I think that if an audience listens to something as an experience of how in tune it is or something of that kind, that the whole point is somehow being missed, and the music has failed."
Experience
"It's not important to me to found a school; it's not important to me to have disciples."
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