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Wole Soyinka

"My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being."

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"My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being."

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"Treating your audience like thieves is absurd. Anyone who chooses to listen to our music becomes a collaborator."

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"The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings."

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"There are so few directors who are musical who appreciate music."

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"I can see me continuing to make the best music I can, and let the chips fall where they may."

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"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."

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"I just really longed to do music that reflected me as an adult and music that I thought was for other adults."

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"Anything I do has to be directly related to my music. If it isn't, I don't really see a point to it."

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"I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised."

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"So all of the music had reference, or is inspired by something of the dharma that I've come in contact with."

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"Listening is the key to everything good in music."

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"Well, first of all I'll say that I come alive best in theater."
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"I found, when I left, that there were others who felt the same way. We'd meet, they'd come and seek me out, we'd talk about the future. And I found that their depression and pessimism was every bit as acute as mine."
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"I don't really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident."
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"Very conscious of the fact that an effort was being made to destroy my mind, because I was deprived of books, deprived of any means of writing, deprived of human companionship. You never know how much you need it until you're deprived of it."
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"One thing I can tell you is this, that I am not a methodical writer."
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"I'm not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That I've never understood."
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"And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others."
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"I grew up in an atmosphere where words were an integral part of culture."
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"The novel, for me, was an accident. I really don't consider myself a novelist."
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"There's a kind of dynamic quality about theater and that dynamic quality expresses itself in relation to, first of all, the environment in which it's being staged; then the audience, the nature of the audience, the quality of the audience."
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