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"I've heard though that there is a younger generation of tonal French composers who are reacting with vigour."
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"The academic area of new music or modern music festivals is not something which attracts me at all."
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"What was once underground is now coming to the surface."
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"Still, American composers working in France have had a pretty hard time."
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"I have friends who have a CD mastering plant in Hollywood and they are very sceptical about European record labels' understanding of digital technology."
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"I work very fast, keeping the ideas flowing but making sure they come out the way I intended."
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"When Philip Glass asked me if I would be interested in doing a new recording of Jesus' Blood he assumed that I would do something similar to the first version and wanted to know what other pieces would be on the same CD."
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"Like an apparently strict musical form it breaks the five minute whole into its structural parts - a descriptive preamble, the action of taking the cards, the development of the cards' manipulation and the revelation of what has been achieved."
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"I currently spend a lot of time thinking about orchestration and every detail of a piece."
Time
"People like Arvo Part would not have been taken seriously 20 years ago."
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"As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as I had taught for a time in art colleges the idea of writing music in response to painting was not alien."
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"I loved Hendrix. I mean, really, really loved him. As if he were one of the great classical composers. And he was. That's how I saw him."
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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."
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"Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism."
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"The Western musical canon came about not merely by accumulation, but by opposition and subversion, both to the ruling powers on whom composers depended for their livelihoods and to other musics."
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"I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena."
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"Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span of several centuries."
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"Other composers have taken this particular technique much further than I in the meantime, with the result that the Law of Diminishing Returns has begun to apply."
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"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."
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"Well, let me, first of all, say, that as a microtonal composer, I've never been much of a theorist."
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"Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven varies the melody, harmony and rhythms so beautifully."
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