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"The difference between the student and the born composer is he really hears the thing, and they have to stage it and manipulate it by technical equipment."
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"Be different to make a difference."
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"They hate you not because of what you have done but because of who you are; you are different from who they are, and you are occupying the ground they want for themselves."
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"There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell."
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"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair."
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"There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read."
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"There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad."
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"The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious."
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"A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections."
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"It doesn't make a difference what temperature a room is, it's always room temperature."
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"It does make a difference what you call things."
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"The danger of that - and there's a grave danger that I, myself, have to be very aware of - is that you become so involved and intrigued in the language that sometimes you lose track that that is only a means to an aesthetic experience that the listener has to get."
Experience
"I distrust anything that you don't hear."
Distrust
"There are some people, by the way, that associate a certain amount of visualization with the performance of music. Those are people that really are not centrally concerned only with music, the traditional things."
Music
"Of all the arts, music is really the most abstract."
Music
"Besides merely some pleasure that we get out of the combinations of pitches together and lines, I think that there is some satisfaction that we get in the fact of having this diffuse thing organized very concretely and put onto a frame and have it actually decided."
Fact
"Hopefully, I have a certain amount of what you call musical talent."
Talent
"Now, there are sometimes making a connection between one section and another that sometimes you do want to see the pattern because it helps you to lead into the next thing - it's a rhetorical thing, where you just see how the pattern has to go into the next thing."
Connection
"To the person that deals in visualizations, I suppose there is something rather exciting about a whole set of people - they all going symmetrically, up or down, in a military sort of precision."
People
"When I was speaking about communicating, I meant that the listener - we have to reach the listener; otherwise, of course, you're writing the piece, as I say, only for the satisfaction of seeing it on the paper for yourself, and then it ends right there."
Right
"I think there have been some periods when the writing almost became a bit of a burden."
Burden
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