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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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"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
"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."
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"One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things."
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"The piece that had a large influence on me was Turangalila."
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"The theatre only knows what it's doing next week, not like the opera, where they say: What are we going to do in five years' time? A completely different attitude."
Time
"In the end it doesn't matter what you do."
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"My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces."
Theatre
"When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18."
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"When I was confronted with official tuition, the academic thing, I could see no relationship whatever between that and the music I'd been writing since I was 11."
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"My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter."
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