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"I think it's good for the composer to teach because you always have new students and you have to begin at the beginning and make things clear."
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"A mansion begins with one brick. A forest begins with one tree. A harvest begins with one seed. An ocean begins with one drop. A friendship begins with one gesture. A fire begins with one spark. A revolution begins with one idea."
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"There is a difference between twenty-nine and thirty. When you are twenty-nine it can be the beginning of everything. When you are thirty it can be the end of everything."
"The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'"
"Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop."
"The difficult problems in life always start off being simple. Great affairs always start off being small."
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"The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy."
"Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else."
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"I don't think that the Pulitzer should be given the way it is. I think the competition should be anonymous. I think completely different people would win it if the names were taken off because a lot of it is done on relationships and names."
"The structural thinking I use in the concert hall is unnecessary to most film projects, and most film composers make better use of the enormous range of pop and other materials and techniques required of them than I probably would, faced with the same challenge."
"Eighty percent of my pieces gravitate towards an A, as a tonal thing, not at the beginning, but somewhere in it."
"I find respect for a mediocre British composer, as opposed to a really good American, ridiculous because they automatically respect a composer if he's from England."
"What I think of as style - and I've gotten to this over years of really thinking about it - is that style is the unconscious choices I make."
"You become a great composer when you win a Pulitzer. But I think that now it's a completely meaningless award."
"The French Revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Don't build on the past. There is no past."
"Jazz is not the popular culture. Jazz is in the same position in our culture as classical music. A very small minority of people really love it."
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