"Eighty percent of my pieces gravitate towards an A, as a tonal thing, not at the beginning, but somewhere in it."

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"Eighty percent of my pieces gravitate towards an A, as a tonal thing, not at the beginning, but somewhere in it."

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"The French Revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Don't build on the past. There is no past."

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