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"I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena."
"Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers."
"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."
"Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span of several centuries."
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"Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them."
"America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist."
"There's the Bacon society, which is fostered by his fourth wife Helen Bacon, but I don't know what kind of performances his music gets. He wrote symphonic music and some chorale music."
"It's necessary to track characters all the way through an opera. If you're dealing with more than one or two characters, it's very easy to forget that the others have lives of their own that feed into the story."
"I had all the normal interests - I played basketball and I headed the school paper. But I also developed very early a great love for music and literature and the theater."
"The artist is something of an outsider in America. I have always felt that America does not value its artists, certainly not in the sense that the Europeans do."
"When I've seen my operas in Europe, they have always struck me as more American than when I hear them here. I can't tell you what that phenomenon is."
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