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"When you focus on want, you become an endless cycle of wants."
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"Only those who want everything done for them are bored."
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"Tyrants seldom want pretexts."
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"You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say."
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"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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"Eventually we want to do a puppet musical with turntables in the orchestra pit."
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"The audience is the camera. I don't want the audience to sit and watch, I want it to move."
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"I don't have any pangs to where I want to be with the Broncos."
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"I realized there was something I didn't quite like in myself that I didn't want to hear about."
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"I want to do everything in the world that can be done."
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"My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces."
Theatre

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

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

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

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

"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

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

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

"I wrote music as soon as I knew notation."
Music

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