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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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"Don't say "the White House wants." Buildings can't want."
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"I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me."
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"What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others."
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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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"Because you want to keep an air of calm and cool."
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"Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it."
Music
"People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English music, but that English music is becoming more like me."
Music
"One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things."
Music
"The theatre only knows what it's doing next week, not like the opera, where they say: What are we going to do in five years' time? A completely different attitude."
Time
"In the end it doesn't matter what you do."
End
"My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces."
Theatre
"When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18."
Age
"When I was confronted with official tuition, the academic thing, I could see no relationship whatever between that and the music I'd been writing since I was 11."
Music
"My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter."
Ideas
"There are rhythmic ideas which sometimes only work up to a point. In writing there are moments when it just comes off the page, it's not just a collection of notes."
Work
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