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"Over the years I have tried to develop something which is technically assured."
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"The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark."
"Polar bears did very well in the warmer times. They didn't die out at all; they didn't die out in the last 10,000 years, nor during the previous interglacial, nor the one before that. So, they're just used as a deceitful heartthrob; you know, to pluck your heartstrings because the polar bears might die out."
"Sixteen Tons was written eight years before I recorded it."
"We've been gone five years and the best they could come up with was boy bands?"
"Among the great glories of the MGM lot were the vast outdoor sets that had been constructed over the years."
"I can see that if this was an album done 10 or 15 years ago we could see we were moving on to some place else."
"I've been using the Mac solely for years, and got very comfortable with it."
"Just because someone's dead doesn't mean it's over. My grandfather died more than 25 years ago, but I still think of him a lot and smell his smell."
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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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