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"The structural thinking I use in the concert hall is unnecessary to most film projects, and most film composers make better use of the enormous range of pop and other materials and techniques required of them than I probably would, faced with the same challenge."
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"The structural thinking I use in the concert hall is unnecessary to most film projects, and most film composers make better use of the enormous range of pop and other materials and techniques required of them than I probably would, faced with the same challenge."

"What I think of as style - and I've gotten to this over years of really thinking about it - is that style is the unconscious choices I make."

"I don't think that the Pulitzer should be given the way it is. I think the competition should be anonymous. I think completely different people would win it if the names were taken off because a lot of it is done on relationships and names."

"Eighty percent of my pieces gravitate towards an A, as a tonal thing, not at the beginning, but somewhere in it."

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"I think it's good for the composer to teach because you always have new students and you have to begin at the beginning and make things clear."

"You become a great composer when you win a Pulitzer. But I think that now it's a completely meaningless award."
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