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"The world system is employment."

"Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays."

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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."

"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."

"I remember once, when I started writing for the alto saxophone, a saxophonist told me to think of it as being like a cross between an oboe and a viola, but louder."

"The academic area of new music or modern music festivals is not something which attracts me at all."

"I've heard though that there is a younger generation of tonal French composers who are reacting with vigour."
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