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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 have no plan to retire anytime soon, although remember I am 50 years old!"

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"If it takes you 20 or 25 years to establish yourself in one field, you really ought to be careful not to stray too far."

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"There has been so much rubbish written up in the papers over the years."

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"I didn't really discover yakuza films until about five or six years ago."

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"I've been around two years shy of 50 years doing what I do. I am a musician."

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"I don't shop. I haven't shopped in about four years."

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"The five warmest years over the last century occurred in the last eight years."

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"You do live longer with bran, but you spend the last fifteen years on the toilet."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"You could live in Winnipeg a thousand years and not meet Ringo, Paul McCartney, or Bob Dylan."

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"I write about it in the book and, you know, explain that. But that was the technicality that actually got my sentence reduced - that Alan Dershowitz used to have my sentence - it came down eventually to eight years."

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"There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people."
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"Still, American composers working in France have had a pretty hard time."
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"I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles."
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"Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century."
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"Music history has flowed under the bridges for many years."
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"When Philip Glass asked me if I would be interested in doing a new recording of Jesus' Blood he assumed that I would do something similar to the first version and wanted to know what other pieces would be on the same CD."
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"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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"I've heard though that there is a younger generation of tonal French composers who are reacting with vigour."
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"People like Arvo Part would not have been taken seriously 20 years ago."
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"The academic area of new music or modern music festivals is not something which attracts me at all."
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