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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."
"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."
"Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers."
"I've heard though that there is a younger generation of tonal French composers who are reacting with vigour."
"I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena."
"Many, many composers have only found their way to a certain form, through familiarizing themselves with texts."
Explore more quotes by Anne Dudley
"Obviously in Art of Noise, I'm just part of the group, and when I do film scores, it's always in collaboration with the director and other people involved."
"Usually one or two things happen: Either you have an idea straightaway - the sort of sound that you want or the instrumentation or one particular sound that you want to feature - or you don't."
"My favorite work is The Full Monty because I got an Oscar for it. But it was really hard work at the time. Sometimes comedy is not a bundle of laughs to actually do."
"I wanted to make a classical piece that was actually designed to be a CD, not designed for performance."
"You know, nobody eats in England. Three or four pints of English beer a night fills you. I can't say I'm very impressed with the food in America. it's all sort of bland. Like turkey sandwiches."
"It's really the sound of the voices, the sound of the words, the sound of the sound that we're interested in."
"I always think it's important to choose your initial theme very carefully because you're going to be married to it for a long time. You might have to generate an hour's worth of music from a very short, little piece of theme."
"Film scores are often based on short themes, and it helps if you've got some way of developing these themes and making them sometimes last 4 minutes and sometimes last 40 seconds. One ends up doing it subconsciously."
"We all shared an admiration of Debussy both as a musician and as sort of an icon for the 20th century. It seemed like an interesting idea to go right back 100 years to find the source of some new ideas now."
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