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"I am writing something which I find satisfying and which I am prepared to put my name to as a composer."
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"Whatever you do gives you the name it gives."
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"The point of writing my name to you is that I see who you are, you see who I am... and that's what it's about."
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"A good deal of tyranny goes by the name of protection."
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"Names and theoretical things don't occur to me. If they do, I'm not doing my real playing mode."
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"There are, in the King case in particular, e names of confidential informants, persons to whom we promised confidentiality in return for their testimony. We have put their testimony in the public domain, but feel that their names should continue to be anonymous."
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"Well, I'm Czech, but Polish, Czech, no matter, it's my name."
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"Biblical names are hot again."
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"I want to feel passion, I want to feel pain. I want to weep at the sound of your name. Come make me laugh, come make me cry... just make me feel alive."
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"You're not a star until they can spell your name in Karachi."
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"I never heard nobody in my audience call me any kind of names."
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"Over the years I have tried to develop something which is technically assured."
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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."
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"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."
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"People like Arvo Part would not have been taken seriously 20 years ago."
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"I am writing something which I find satisfying and which I am prepared to put my name to as a composer."
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"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."
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"Still, American composers working in France have had a pretty hard time."
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"The academic area of new music or modern music festivals is not something which attracts me at all."
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"I work very fast, keeping the ideas flowing but making sure they come out the way I intended."
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"I currently spend a lot of time thinking about orchestration and every detail of a piece."
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