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Gavin Bryars

"Over the years I have tried to develop something which is technically assured."

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"Over the years I have tried to develop something which is technically assured."

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"I live in New York simply because I don't know any better. I moved there when the show went off the air a couple of years after that."

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"Well, these days, if you're away five years, you might not be able to get back."

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"I'm the worst person to ask about how to get noticed. It took me 25 years."

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"I never put on a pair of shoes until I've worn them at least five years."

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"Warp was important to Thom about two years ago when he was looking for different sounds."

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"So I guess I had, I think they tell me I had, about three years total of piano lessons, off and on."

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"I've been around the block a lot and I've had a merry trail for 55 years."

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"At Olduvai, for 20 years, Mary and I had investigated and made a general survey of the overall geology."

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"I started playing harp about fourteen years ago."

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"So as the years draw on toward the Biblical limit, the inclination to look back, and to tell some sort of story of what one has seen, grows upon most of us."

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"I am writing something which I find satisfying and which I am prepared to put my name to as a composer."
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"It makes sense to invest in new work. It's almost like having a research department in a scientific laboratory. You have to try things out. You'll make some bad mistakes. Some things will fail but at least you'll energise the organisation."
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"Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century."
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"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."
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"I work very fast, keeping the ideas flowing but making sure they come out the way I intended."
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"Still, American composers working in France have had a pretty hard time."
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"As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as I had taught for a time in art colleges the idea of writing music in response to painting was not alien."
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