"Once you get over the first hill, there is always a new, higher one lurking, of course."

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"Once you get over the first hill, there is always a new, higher one lurking, of course."

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"I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet."

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"The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason."

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"Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does."

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"First of all, you have to understand that I'm like anybody else. When I hear my voice on a record I absolutely loathe my voice. I cannot stand my voice."

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"Illusion is the first of all pleasures."

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"Although in Abbott and Costello, and straight man was first. That's a very interesting concept."

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"There is no formula to it. Writing every song is a little journey. The first note has to lift you."

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"It's just something I've always done. In South Texas, the first guitar you get is a Mexican guitar. And the first one I got, the first thing I did was take it apart."

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"I'm very into the first production of the show."

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"The sound was my greatest concern. There were certain difficulties getting used to the way every musician can hear his or herself, the way each of them relates to the musician in the next seat."

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"The Northern idea of form is more of a process. The various units of the form overlap. You can't tell where some things stop and new things start. This is typical of Sibelius."

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"Pulse as an active means of expression, Stravinsky and Beethoven are the two masters of that."

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"I always had, deep down, a slight aversion toward the purely cerebral in music."

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"As we watch TV or films, there are no organic transitions, only edits. The idea of A becoming B, rather than A jumping to B, has become foreign."

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