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"Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second."
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"My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music."

"I write music to please myself. Hopefully the director's enjoying it too."

"How does my music connect to an audience? That is just a complete mystery to me."

"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."

"I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music."
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"For Debussy the musician and the man I have had profound admiration, but by nature I'm different from him. I think I have always personally followed a direction opposed to that of the symbolism of Debussy."

"We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art."

"My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to The Raven, is found by chance or intuition, that the composition moved towards perfection with the precision and inevitability of a mathematical equation."

"You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel."

"I am not one of the great composers. All the great have produced enormously. There is everything in their work - the best and the worst, but there is always quantity. But I have written relatively little."
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