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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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"Just change your attitude and perception to change your life."
"This world has been changing from time immemorial. But because it is "round (subject to cycle of cause-effect), one cannot find an end to it."
"All things that we ordained festival,Turn from their office to black funeral;Our instruments to melancholy bells,Our wedding cheer to a sad burial feast,Our solemn hymns to sullen dirges change,Our bridal flowers serve for a buried corse,And all things change them to the contrary."
"We're on the cusp, on the brink, of enormous change in this country."
"When the tables are turned, whoever was full becomes hungry."
"If you want to change anything or your surroundings, change your perception; it will change everything."
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"The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names."
"I think there are influences that you open the door to, and influences that come under the door."
"This sounds horribly pretentious, but I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it."
"My attitude to writing is like when you do wallpapering, you remember where all the little bits are that don't meet. And then your friends say: It's terrific!"
"The theatre only knows what it's doing next week, not like the opera, where they say: What are we going to do in five years' time? A completely different attitude."
"There are rhythmic ideas which sometimes only work up to a point. In writing there are moments when it just comes off the page, it's not just a collection of notes."
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