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"That was my challenge as a composer. Like with anything, to keep yourself interested in doing what you do, you set yourself challenges. So I said, Okay, I'll try to write a hundred tunes in a year."
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"When faced with a hurdle then give it all you've got to jump over it because it can't be done in two stages."
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"For the likes of you, the path to happiness is one mean son of a bitch of a path."
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"It was rather difficult to throw a game when you had no idea what you were doing to win it in the first place."
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"There is no pleasure in fighting a weak opponent."
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"Stealing regular stuff was no fun. She wanted a real challenge. Over the last two years, she'd picked the most difficult places to enter. Then she'd snuck in.And eaten their dinners."
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"It's easier to bleed than sweat, Mr. Motes."
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"If you're not scared every day, you're not pushing hard enough."
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"Now for the hitch in Jane's character,' he said at last, speaking more calmly than from his look I had expected him to speak. 'The reel of silk has run smoothly enough so far; but I always knew there would come a knot and a puzzle: here it is. Now for vexation, and exasperation, and endless trouble!"
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"No matter how hard you kick, no matter how high you get, you can't go all the way around."
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"Obsession led me to write. It's been that way with every book I've ever written. I become completely consumed by a theme, by characters, by a desire to meet a challenge."
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"You know, when we were kids, we had to go to a theater to see a movie. And then television came in and you had to wait until midnight to see the one you wanted to see. Now, all you've got to do is go to a store and buy it and you can watch it whenever you want!"
Kids
"That's where I began to ask questions that maybe don't have one specific answer. And the more people you get answers from, the richer the environment becomes."
People
"It's a matter of keeping people on a spontaneous edge."
People
"Well, in Japan, I have got a group of musicians that I have worked with a lot, that concentrate just on the hardcore stuff, say, that Naked City has been working on. We have like a repertoire of sixty songs now."
Musicians
"That was my challenge as a composer. Like with anything, to keep yourself interested in doing what you do, you set yourself challenges. So I said, Okay, I'll try to write a hundred tunes in a year."
Challenge
"I put together the influences of my life in as clear a way as I possibly can, in the same way that Beethoven or Schoenberg or Bach put their influences together."
Life
"Great musicians accept everything that they hear and find something good. They take what they like and they throw away what they don't like."
Musicians
"It breaks even. We lose ten, twenty grand every year. But then the people who are working say, Look, I'll kick this back in, I don't need to take this profit share. It's very cooperative."
People
"I don't control it at all. It's all up to the musicians in the group. They control it. They make all the cues, and they tell me what they want, and then I act like a mirroring device so that everyone can see what the cues are."
Control
"When I'm writing, sometimes it gets to that place where I feel like the piece is writing itself and I'm trying not to get in the way."
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