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"It's necessary to track characters all the way through an opera. If you're dealing with more than one or two characters, it's very easy to forget that the others have lives of their own that feed into the story."
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"I'm so busy these days. I forget everything but my lines."
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"In this bright future you can't forget your past."
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"If it's hard to remember, it'll be difficult to forget."
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"Apparently it'll all settle down and they'll forget about it soon."
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"If you had told me when I was 18 that I wouldn't have made it until I was 29, I would have said, Forget it."
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"If you were on the phone with me and Tommy right now, we would probably forget you were there, we'd just be cracking jokes. It's like Beavis and Butthead."
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"I seem to find different material every four to six months and I frequently forget it which is a shame because it would be nice to have a bigger library."
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"Don't ever prophesy; for if you prophesy wrong, nobody will forget it; and if you prophesy right, nobody will remember it."
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"We just want kids to come to our concert and forget about everything."
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"No matter what your heartache may be, laughing helps you forget it for a few seconds."
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"The story of Willie Stark fascinated me because it was tackling the story of a man who outwardly has all the success one could possibly want and who is destroyed by his personal demons."
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"What is American music? The most satisfying answer I've come across is that it was a kind of natural comfort with the vernacular which is diverse and regional; it's not one particular set of sounds."
Music
"There's the Bacon society, which is fostered by his fourth wife Helen Bacon, but I don't know what kind of performances his music gets. He wrote symphonic music and some chorale music."
Music
"The artist is something of an outsider in America. I have always felt that America does not value its artists, certainly not in the sense that the Europeans do."
America
"Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast."
Composer
"It's amazing how fast generations lose sight of other generations. One of the first things the young composers who come to work with me say is that they want to write music people will like, instead of gaining their credentials by being rejected by the audience."
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"I think anything that is expressed directly and as honestly as possible will last."
Will
"If something is successful with the audience, it's automatically suspect; the reverse is to say that not to reach audiences is the greatest compliment an artist can receive!"
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"I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable."
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"Opera is given so little attention in the national press."
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