"In Hollywood, the rainbow hits the ground for composers."

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

"Well, let me, first of all, say, that as a microtonal composer, I've never been much of a theorist."

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"Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers."

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