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"The world system is employment."
"Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays."
"Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live."
"Back then, work revolved around life. Today, life revolves around work."
Explore more quotes by Harrison Birtwistle
"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."
"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."
"One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things."
"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."
"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."
"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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