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"If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union."
"I didn't do this for the President. When I had this opportunity, not only was it work, but it was something that I could do, as an actor, for the victims and their families. Something I could give back."
"The vicious circle of life is employment."
"A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worst when they despise him. But of a good leader, who talks little, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say, 'We did this ourselves.'"
Explore more quotes by Harrison Birtwistle
"The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names."
"This sounds horribly pretentious, but I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it."
"One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things."
"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."
"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."
"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."
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