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"Nevertheless, one doesn't have time to think, oh, well, this is a quarter tone sharp, or flat."
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"I was required by Capital to release one every six months and the fastest I could do with all my touring was every nine months, and it would spook me every time because I never had what I needed and I really didn't want to do covers."
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"I thought that the administration needed bipartisan support, and I was for our commander-in-chief. Because I felt at that time it was the right thing do. If I knew then what I know now, I would have never voted for the war."
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"I stayed in New York City for the first time, I'd always wanted to do that."
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"When you think about great teams, The Beatles and the Pythons immediately spring to mind. The Pythons were as much a part of their time as The Beatles."
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"It is time this Congress listened to the American people and minimum-wage workers, and it is time that we act."
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"Being a full time coach doesn't mean that we practice more than other teams. In fact we have strict regulations about the length of our practices and playing season. The academic schedule here means that I rarely have a full team at any one practice!"
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"A liberal is a man who is right most of the time, but he's right too soon."
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"When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere."
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"I'm not really good at retiring. I tried that one time and Nancy ran me out of the house."
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"I always turn in my books on time, so you can always count on a book coming out when it's supposed to."
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"I'm thinking in terms of a point of departure, a field of action for performers to express an expressive need of mine which hopefully the context of music would convey."
Music

"I really write for people."
People

"But nevertheless, it's music ultimately that matters in opera, and opera is a piece of music reaching out as a vision in sound reaching out to the world."
Music

"However, yes, especially as one gets older, you know, you really hope that your music will become more generally available, even though some of the performances might be riddled with faults."
Music

"We need to open up the future. We also need to keep everything valuable from the past."
Future

"Well, let me, first of all, say, that as a microtonal composer, I've never been much of a theorist."
Composer

"I think the composer and production staff of an opera have a real responsibility to use visual elements of all kinds to make clear to the American audience, at any rate, exactly what is going on."
Visualization

"The way that I got involved with microtonal music was, frankly, through jazz."
Music

"Well, the very best operas are the ones written by the very best composers."
Opera

"In other words, I think that if an audience listens to something as an experience of how in tune it is or something of that kind, that the whole point is somehow being missed, and the music has failed."
Experience
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