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"But you can't really know your audiences so well."
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"I have spoken to expert audiences occasionally, but then no audience is expert over the whole range of things I want to explore."
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"I relate to the audiences and they know me. It's pretty real."
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"I can play a man who's despicable. But I'll still look inside him to find a point of connection. If I can find that kernel, audiences will relate to me."
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"Teaching physics at the University, and more general lecturing to wider audiences has been a major concern."
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"If misery loves company, then triumph demands an audience."
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"We had more viewers on the broadcast network than we did on the cable channel."
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"Sometimes during a ballet I'll look around and see all these rows of intent faces, concentrating on this beautiful thing up on the stage."
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"Audiences like to see the bad guys get their comeuppance."
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"I also want to return to doing stand-up. I've become frightened of live audiences. This is a really telling sign that I need to go back on the comedy circuit again."
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"With stand-up you've just got that one chance. Audiences can be quite fickle."
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"I don't see how they can with most of my pieces, but I think it's unfortunate that they can through familiarity with flashy performances of a great deal of other music."
Music
"I'm obviously very keen on the theater and I think it's inevitable that some of the orchestral and chamber pieces have got dramatic elements which might even suggest an unspecified dramatic plot of some kind or other, even though it's not in my mind at the time."
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"I'm very interested, for instance, in music in education - getting young people not only to listen to, but participate in the music that I write. I consider this one of the most vital aspects of my work."
Education
"I know what I want at least, and the older I get I think I'm better at getting it out of players and singers."
Want
"If you're writing a piece for the Boston Pops, the balance is towards one end. If you're writing a piece for a chamber music society, then it's towards another point. I won't make a final answer on that. I think it changes with every piece."
Music
"You don't underestimate either players or audience in any circumstances."
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"But you can't really know your audiences so well."
Audience
"At the moment, in Britain we're facing such enormous cutbacks in education programs and music programs and art programs that you feel you are knocking your head against a brick wall."
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"I'm not actually teaching any more, but I am writing pieces for schools all the time, and for kids."
Time
"I recently did a piece for the Boston Pops and John Williams, and I hope that it's as well a composed piece as I've ever done for any other medium or occasion."
Hope
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