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Harrison Birtwistle

"The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names."

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"The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names."

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"Those words, that voice, had more power over me than any phantom ever could."

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"Power and glory are two dialectic energies working in common ground. Taking a glimpse of the meandering under swell of glory in the shade of power, can be very inspiring and illuminating. ['The power and the glory']"

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"Wherever wind visits, there it freshens the air; wherever wisdom visits, there it freshens the mind!"

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"To get fruits from the tree branches, shake them with hands; to get fruits from men, shake them with clever ideas!"

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"Look at the people around you. Some Inspire you, some Perspire you. Be with those that build Energy in you."

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"When the wind likes a path, the weeds around that path will tremble all day long!"

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"Spend your time with the people who talk about the stars because to whichever place you put your mind in, you will move to that place! Stars pull you to the stars; mud pulls you to the mud!"

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"Influence is when you are not the one talking and yet your words fill the room, when you are absent and yet your presence is felt everywhere."

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"We can influence who we will be tomorrow, for tomorrow can only be built on today."

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"I like George Carlin's jokes. I like his humor. He's one of my heroes, and I like what he did with talking about everyday things."

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"It's the irrational things that interest me."
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"When I dealt with set theory, I could never make it be the music that I wanted."
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"I'm not a music lover in the sense that I look for something to have on. I've never had that attitude to music."
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"The theatre only knows what it's doing next week, not like the opera, where they say: What are we going to do in five years' time? A completely different attitude."
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"There are rhythmic ideas which sometimes only work up to a point. In writing there are moments when it just comes off the page, it's not just a collection of notes."
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"Music is such a problem in the time it takes."
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"This sounds horribly pretentious, but I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it."
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"When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18."
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"I think there are influences that you open the door to, and influences that come under the door."
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"I don't have ideas so much as there are things which constantly evolve... there are various threads or layers, if you like, which change."
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