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"I don't have ideas so much as there are things which constantly evolve... there are various threads or layers, if you like, which change."
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"When things break, it's not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again. It's because a little piece gets lost - the two remaining ends couldn't fit together even if they wanted to. The whole shape has changed."

"Every misfortune is a fortune."

"No, what is important is neither linearity or non-linearity, but the change, the degree of change from something that doesn't move to other events with different tempos in particular."

"It's quite nice to see that I didn't have to change who I was to reach two very different types of people."

"We ask the great masses of India to be patient a short time longer, while the cause of freedom is being fought out, not because we want to delay, but because the hard facts of war make a complete change impossible at the moment."
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"Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it."

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

"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."

"This sounds horribly pretentious, but I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it."
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