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"It makes sense to invest in new work. It's almost like having a research department in a scientific laboratory. You have to try things out. You'll make some bad mistakes. Some things will fail but at least you'll energise the organisation."
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"Still, American composers working in France have had a pretty hard time."
Time
"I have friends who have a CD mastering plant in Hollywood and they are very sceptical about European record labels' understanding of digital technology."
Technology
"I work very fast, keeping the ideas flowing but making sure they come out the way I intended."
Work
"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."
Blood
"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."
Development
"I currently spend a lot of time thinking about orchestration and every detail of a piece."
Time
"It makes sense to invest in new work. It's almost like having a research department in a scientific laboratory. You have to try things out. You'll make some bad mistakes. Some things will fail but at least you'll energise the organisation."
Work
"I am writing something which I find satisfying and which I am prepared to put my name to as a composer."
Name
"Somehow in the 20th Century an idea has developed that music is an activity or skill which is not comprehensible to the man in the street. This is an arrogant assertion and not necessarily a true one."
Music
"Over the years I have tried to develop something which is technically assured."
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"That most limited of all specialists, the "well-rounded man"."
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Personal Development
"The world system is employment."
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Personal Development
"Police officers are poorly paid for a very stressful job that has them in very high powered radio frequency (RF) fields and in a daily environment that may result in them being assaulted, maimed or killed."
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Personal Development
"A butler supplies food to nourish your body, but a writer nourishes your mind through writing."
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Personal Development
"Do not be weary to make money."
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Personal Development
"My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer."
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"Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays."
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"Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live."
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"Next to us is not the workman whom we have hired, with whom we love so well to talk, but the workman whose work we are."
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Personal Development
"Be robust enough to work more than a robot!"
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Personal Development
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