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Harrison Birtwistle

"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."

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Donna Grant

"We cannot measure time. We can only measure changes of life and the universe."

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Donna Grant

"I wouldn't ask too much of her,' I ventured. 'You can't change the past.''Can't change the past?' he cried incredulously. 'Why of course you can!"

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Donna Grant

"Life is a bubble in the ocean of time. At the same time, it can hold all the water of the ocean in her heart."

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Donna Grant

"God had infinite time to give us.... He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings and with each therefore a new idea new inventions and new applications."

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Donna Grant

"Time is the greatest and longest-established spinner of all. ... His factory is a secret place his work noiseless and his hands are mutes."

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Donna Grant

"Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke."

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Donna Grant

"The value of time is immeasurable."

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Donna Grant

"Sometimes I feel like if you just watch things, just sit still and let the world exist in front of you - sometimes I swear that just for a second time freezes and the world pauses in its tilt. Just for a second. And if you somehow found a way to live in that second, then you would live forever."

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Donna Grant

"Worrying about what happened on Monday, or, what might happen on Wednesday, is at the expense of one's Tuesday."

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Donna Grant

"Here is one fact 1 minute to finish the class, 1 day to die, one day behind that fact, one day in that fact, one day before my birthday will come, one day before I will finish... (So far one day is popular... that's a fact called itself zipf law... )...Call it how you want, but for my it's zipfy law!"

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Harrison Birtwistle
"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

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Harrison Birtwistle
"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

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Harrison Birtwistle
"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

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

Theatre

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Harrison Birtwistle
"When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18."

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Harrison Birtwistle
"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."

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

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Harrison Birtwistle
"I'm not a music lover in the sense that I look for something to have on. I've never had that attitude to music."

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"I don't have ideas so much as there are things which constantly evolve... there are various threads or layers, if you like, which change."

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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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