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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."

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"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."

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"Music is such a problem in the time it takes."
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"There are rhythmic ideas which sometimes only work up to a point. In writing there are moments when it just comes off the page, it's not just a collection of notes."
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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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"I always write the pieces I want to write."
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"This sounds horribly pretentious, but I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it."
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"In the end it doesn't matter what you do."
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"My attitude to writing is like when you do wallpapering, you remember where all the little bits are that don't meet. And then your friends say: It's terrific!"
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"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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"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."
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"I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism."
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