"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."

Beginning, Students

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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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"One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die."

Franz Kafka, Austrian Novelist

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"All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead."

Samuel Beckett, Irish Playwright

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"There is a woman at the beginning of all great things."

Alan Bleasdale, British Dramatist

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"Even though we're a week and a half away from Thanksgiving, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas."

Richard Roeper, American Critic

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"We based the look on rock 'n roll right from the beginning."

Vivienne Westwood, English Designer

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"Three months. I was playing the organ for three months. It was a challenge for me in the beginning."

Jimmy Smith, American Musician

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"Everything has to be done to build some sort of international democracy. We've seen only the tiniest beginnings of that."

Susan George, American Activist

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"I met some friends in the end of 10th, beginning of 11th, who were in the popular group so I finished off high school in that group and got to see both sides."

Shane West, American Actor

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"When the game is over it is really just beginning."

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"A beginning is the end of something, always."

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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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"I have tremendous respect for film composers."

Composer, Composers, Film, Respect

"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."

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

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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."

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"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."

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"I think art can reflect tragedy."

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"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."

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"You become a great composer when you win a Pulitzer. But I think that now it's a completely meaningless award."

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