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Harrison Birtwistle

"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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Donna Grant

"Miranda raised her eyebrows. Apparently she hadn't figured me for a country music fan. I liked her for that."

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Donna Grant

"Music reveals the deepest beauty of the soul."

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Donna Grant

"Music fills the void between the heart and soul and connects them in heavenly delights."

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Donna Grant

"I listen to music constantly while writing."

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Donna Grant

"Music heard so deeplyThat it is not heard at all, butyou are the musicWhile the music lasts."

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Donna Grant

"Music is the song of eternal love which touches the soul and fills us with joy."

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Donna Grant

"I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation."

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Donna Grant

"Music is the language of the universe, which everyone, including all animals, can understand."

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Donna Grant

"Tax not so bad a voice to slander music any more than once."

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Donna Grant

"Music is the primordial language of life. That is why we love it so much. Actually every animal can hear and understand music better than we do."

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Harrison Birtwistle
"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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Harrison Birtwistle
"My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces."

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Harrison Birtwistle
"When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18."

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Harrison Birtwistle
"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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Harrison Birtwistle
"My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter."

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Harrison Birtwistle
"I'm not a music lover in the sense that I look for something to have on. I've never had that attitude to music."

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Harrison Birtwistle
"The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles."

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"I think there are influences that you open the door to, and influences that come under the door."

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Harrison Birtwistle
"It's the irrational things that interest me."

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Harrison Birtwistle
"The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names."

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