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Harrison Birtwistle

"I always write the pieces I want to write."

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Donna Grant

"When you focus on want, you become an endless cycle of wants."

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Donna Grant

"Only those who want everything done for them are bored."

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Donna Grant

"Tyrants seldom want pretexts."

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Donna Grant

"You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say."

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Donna Grant

"Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do."

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Donna Grant

"Eventually we want to do a puppet musical with turntables in the orchestra pit."

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Donna Grant

"The audience is the camera. I don't want the audience to sit and watch, I want it to move."

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Donna Grant

"I don't have any pangs to where I want to be with the Broncos."

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Donna Grant

"I realized there was something I didn't quite like in myself that I didn't want to hear about."

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Donna Grant

"I want to do everything in the world that can be done."

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Harrison Birtwistle
"My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces."

Theatre

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Harrison Birtwistle
"My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter."

Ideas

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Harrison Birtwistle
"The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles."

Opera

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Harrison Birtwistle
"I think there are influences that you open the door to, and influences that come under the door."

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Harrison Birtwistle
"The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names."

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Harrison Birtwistle
"My attitude to writing is like when you do wallpapering, you remember where all the little bits are that don't meet. And then your friends say: It's terrific!"

Attitude

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Harrison Birtwistle
"I always write the pieces I want to write."

Want

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Harrison Birtwistle
"Music is such a problem in the time it takes."

Music

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Harrison Birtwistle
"I wrote music as soon as I knew notation."

Music

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Harrison Birtwistle
"I don't think there is much American music."

Music

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