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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 height of your storm determines the height of your rainbow."
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"It is in vain to try and kick the wind."
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"I wondered if hurdlers ever thought, you know, "This would go faster if we just got rid of the hurdles."
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"Every problem is a new puzzle to be solved."
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"But it is a delightful challenge to try to depict interesting aliens."
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"We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win."
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"Life is a game. Either you win or lose. Never allow the fear of losing prevent you from entering the game."
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"If you participate in a competition, you have a chance to lose. If you don't participate, you are already a loser."
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"One who takes the road less traveled earns the rewards most missed."
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"In working class districts, you had several families living together in the one house, and it was very difficult to get a house, because the politicians who controlled housing were doing so in a very discriminatory fashion."
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"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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"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."
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"The French Revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Don't build on the past. There is no past."
Revolution
"Art is not only about angst."
Art
"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."
Beginning
"I find respect for a mediocre British composer, as opposed to a really good American, ridiculous because they automatically respect a composer if he's from England."
American
"You become a great composer when you win a Pulitzer. But I think that now it's a completely meaningless award."
Now
"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."
People
"Jazz is not the popular culture. Jazz is in the same position in our culture as classical music. A very small minority of people really love it."
Love
"I think art can reflect tragedy."
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