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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 Russian composers, especially, tricked the symphony orchestra into the kind of dynamic, rhythmic thing."
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"Many, many composers have only found their way to a certain form, through familiarizing themselves with texts."
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"Perhaps two million years ago the creatures of a planet in some remote galaxy faced a musical crisis similar to that which we earthly composers face today."
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"Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers."
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"Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere."
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"Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast."
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"When I began, the guitar was en-closed in a vicious circle. There were no composers writing for the guitar, be-cause there were no virtuoso guitarists."
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"Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism."
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"In Hollywood, the rainbow hits the ground for composers."
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"Eighty percent of my pieces gravitate towards an A, as a tonal thing, not at the beginning, but somewhere in it."
Beginning
"I find respect for a mediocre British composer, as opposed to a really good American, ridiculous because they automatically respect a composer if he's from England."
American
"You become a great composer when you win a Pulitzer. But I think that now it's a completely meaningless award."
Now
"I don't think that the Pulitzer should be given the way it is. I think the competition should be anonymous. I think completely different people would win it if the names were taken off because a lot of it is done on relationships and names."
People
"What I think of as style - and I've gotten to this over years of really thinking about it - is that style is the unconscious choices I make."
Choice
"I have tremendous respect for film composers."
Composer
"The structural thinking I use in the concert hall is unnecessary to most film projects, and most film composers make better use of the enormous range of pop and other materials and techniques required of them than I probably would, faced with the same challenge."
Challenge
"I think art can reflect tragedy."
Art
"I think it's good for the composer to teach because you always have new students and you have to begin at the beginning and make things clear."
Beginning
"Art is not only about angst."
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