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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."

John Eaton, American Politician

Plot, Composers, Trouble

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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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"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."

"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."

"I want the audience to be so involved in the sweep of the music."

"Nevertheless, one doesn't have time to think, oh, well, this is a quarter tone sharp, or flat."

"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."

"It's not important to me to found a school; it's not important to me to have disciples."

"Well, let me, first of all, say, that as a microtonal composer, I've never been much of a theorist."

"We need to open up the future. We also need to keep everything valuable from the past."

"We need it to capture the energy of contemporary life."

"I've just simply used what I've used because of the great, great expressive potential of it."

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