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"Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span of several centuries."
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"Other composers have taken this particular technique much further than I in the meantime, with the result that the Law of Diminishing Returns has begun to apply."
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"Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism."
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"I occasionally play works by contemporary composers and for two reasons. First to discourage the composer from writing any more and secondly to remind myself how much I appreciate Beethoven."
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"I loved Hendrix. I mean, really, really loved him. As if he were one of the great classical composers. And he was. That's how I saw him."
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"Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven varies the melody, harmony and rhythms so beautifully."
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"I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena."
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"The Western musical canon came about not merely by accumulation, but by opposition and subversion, both to the ruling powers on whom composers depended for their livelihoods and to other musics."
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"I have tremendous respect for film composers."
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"The composers could no longer direct all performances in person, and so the responsibility of interpreting their works in the spirit in which they had been conceived was placed upon conductors."
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"This exploded in me almost more music than I could consume."
Music
"Never play anything that don't sound right. You might not make any money, but at least you won't get hostile with yourself."
Money
"I don't think I'll ever be president of anything."
President
"I know Mother named me after a railroad man, but it's too late now, I'm afraid. Much, much too late."
Mother
"In Hollywood, the rainbow hits the ground for composers."
Composer
"I'm singing the music publisher's theme song - it ain't a commercial."
Music
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