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"Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span of several centuries."
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"I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena."
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"Composers are not all good conductors."
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"Well, let me, first of all, say, that as a microtonal composer, I've never been much of a theorist."
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"I've heard though that there is a younger generation of tonal French composers who are reacting with vigour."
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"In Hollywood, the rainbow hits the ground for composers."
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"Composers are always going back to the past."
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"Pianists call me a composer, composers call me a pianist. The classicists think me a futurist, and the futurists call me a reactionary."
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"Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism."
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"Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers."
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"Many composers today don't know what the human throat is."
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"Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span of several centuries."
Composer
"Actually, most things I say in public lead more or less directly to my own compositional practice, so I should be careful about generalizing lest they come back to haunt me."
Practice
"I am certainly not arguing for the de facto autonomy of the individual work, even though there is much to be said for making the attempt to see it in that light as one facet of the reception process."
Work
"By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow."
Poems
"This was possible only by dint of extended periods of frequently quite painful reflection and digestion."
Reflection
"With respect to the respective French and German traditions you are no doubt correct, although I am reluctant to see individual achievement reduced to archetypes."
Achievement
"If the work of art is to continue pursuing the vision of both being in and of the world but nevertheless in some fashion being more than just one more object to the mounting clutter, this is the specific point, I think, where this must be assured."
Art
"The past nine years in San Diego have represented such a period of questioning."
Past
"Naturally enough, I couldn't have foreseen the vast sea change which has come upon that scene as a result of German reunification and associated events."
Change
"What makes a specific quality or quantity of innovation retain its intense newness over the years?"
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