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"The piece that had a large influence on me was Turangalila."
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"You win minds through your brilliance. You win hearts through your tenderness. You win souls through your benevolence."
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"A good word will spread in the grapevine, bringing forth clusters of grapes and the benevolent of wine; a bad word will spread withering the vines, and choke the potential grapes."
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"Spend your time with the people who talk about the stars because to whichever place you put your mind in, you will move to that place! Stars pull you to the stars; mud pulls you to the mud!"
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"What you do teaches faster, and has a lasting impression, far beyond what you say."
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"He who illumines one has begun illumining the world."
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"Everything I touch makes me a little bit more like the thing I'm touching, so I'd better start paying attention to what I'm touching."
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"When the wind likes a path, the weeds around that path will tremble all day long!"
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"If you are a follower of Jesus Christ , then the world around you will also be subdued."
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"To get fruits from the tree branches, shake them with hands; to get fruits from men, shake them with clever ideas!"
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"Influence is not about what you can do but how you use it to change the lives of others."
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"My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces."
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"My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter."
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"The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles."
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"I think there are influences that you open the door to, and influences that come under the door."
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"The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names."
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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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"The piece that had a large influence on me was Turangalila."
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"I always write the pieces I want to write."
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"Music is such a problem in the time it takes."
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"I wrote music as soon as I knew notation."
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