"My attitude to writing is like when you do wallpapering, you remember where all the little bits are that don't meet. And then your friends say: It's terrific!"

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"My attitude to writing is like when you do wallpapering, you remember where all the little bits are that don't meet. And then your friends say: It's terrific!"

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"There are rhythmic ideas which sometimes only work up to a point. In writing there are moments when it just comes off the page, it's not just a collection of notes."

Work

"I don't have ideas so much as there are things which constantly evolve... there are various threads or layers, if you like, which change."

Change

"Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it."

Music

"My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter."

Ideas

"I don't think there is much American music."

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"People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English music, but that English music is becoming more like me."

Music

"I always write the pieces I want to write."

Want

"The piece that had a large influence on me was Turangalila."

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"I'm not a music lover in the sense that I look for something to have on. I've never had that attitude to music."

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"When I dealt with set theory, I could never make it be the music that I wanted."

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