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"But somehow, I felt no inclination to be interested in it in any amateur way, let alone professional, until suddenly I became interested. And the first thing I did was to compose: not play an instrument, but to compose."
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"In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter."
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"Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does."
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"Like all bands, the first two albums are always the ones most written about, and the most covered. When a band gets to their third of fourth album, the story of the band has already been told."
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"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."
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"When I die, if the word 'thong' appears in the first or second sentence of my obituary, I've screwed up."
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"Well, first, I didn't kill Dr. King."
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"First of all, you needed a budget to do the video. The record companies would pick and choose who got videos."
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"I wanted a name that would put us first in the phone directory, or second if you count ABBA."
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"The first few years I was in Vermont quite a bit, but I don't think I ever spent years and years there."
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"To finish first you must first finish."
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"But somehow, I felt no inclination to be interested in it in any amateur way, let alone professional, until suddenly I became interested. And the first thing I did was to compose: not play an instrument, but to compose."
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"That was more or less coincidental in the sense that my parents wanted me to come back to New York because that's the center of musical activity still to this day, more or less, and so I auditioned for the Metropolitan Opera."
Day
"Because I have sixty years of being a professional composer, conductor, musician, whatever, and you develop a lot of friendships and you get involved with a lot of sort of long-term commitments and obligations."
Being
"So now, thirty years, forty years later, I mean, I could find a whole orchestra of a thousand to put these things together in New York City alone. In those days, if I could scrape up twenty musicians to do this it was something extraordinary."
Musicians
"Well, because music is my life and music is not work for me."
Life
"I don't hate work, composing is not work for me, it's my pleasure; it's my life. So why should I stop? If something is pleasurable and exciting and rewarding, why should one stop?"
Work
"So this anchoring in some way, in some important way in the past without repeating the past, but on the basis of the past building something new: that is what is important."
Building
"I would like to read some books: I don't have time; I would like to continue working on my autobiography."
Time
"The record company started as an adjunct to that, to give young composers their first recorded performances; to give young musicians their first debut on a recording. These are all things that big record companies would never touch because there is no money in it!"
Money
"And it is this sense that some of us have to contribute to the culture, to the society in ways that may hurt financially, so what? We do it because we are born to do it, we feel we have no other choice and so be it."
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