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"I've heard though that there is a younger generation of tonal French composers who are reacting with vigour."

"Pianists call me a composer, composers call me a pianist. The classicists think me a futurist, and the futurists call me a reactionary."

"Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism."

"I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena."

"Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span of several centuries."

"Well, let me, first of all, say, that as a microtonal composer, I've never been much of a theorist."
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"I know Mother named me after a railroad man, but it's too late now, I'm afraid. Much, much too late."

"Never play anything that don't sound right. You might not make any money, but at least you won't get hostile with yourself."
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