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"Oh, yes. I knew I was weird by the time I was four. I knew I wasn't like other boys. I knew I was more fearful. I didn't like the rough and tumble most boys were into. I knew I was a sissy."

"Time management is a big part of the director's job."

"To convince oneself that one has the right to live decently takes time."

"In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements."

"While there's time left, I want to do different kinds of things."
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"The academic area of new music or modern music festivals is not something which attracts me at all."

"Like an apparently strict musical form it breaks the five minute whole into its structural parts - a descriptive preamble, the action of taking the cards, the development of the cards' manipulation and the revelation of what has been achieved."

"I have friends who have a CD mastering plant in Hollywood and they are very sceptical about European record labels' understanding of digital technology."

"I am writing something which I find satisfying and which I am prepared to put my name to as a composer."

"It's rather like attending a university seminar where you are talking to a few gifted specialists who deliver a paper to an audience of their peers. That's one way of making music."

"I remember once, when I started writing for the alto saxophone, a saxophonist told me to think of it as being like a cross between an oboe and a viola, but louder."
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