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"You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel."
"How many times have you been on the freeway and had someone fly by you at 100 mph then end up two cars ahead of you at the off ramp? What's the point?"
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"I've never worked as much as I would've wanted to, and that's why I end up doing a lot of stage as well, because stage is a full course meal."
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"Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years."
"In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end."
"I like my stuff 'cause I only ever end up with tracks that I really, really like. It always appeals to me."
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"It comes down to something really simple: Can I visualize myself playing those scenes? If that happens, then I know that I will probably end up doing it."
Explore more quotes by Harrison Birtwistle
"I think there are influences that you open the door to, and influences that come under the door."
"This sounds horribly pretentious, but I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it."
"I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism."
"People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English music, but that English music is becoming more like me."
"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."
"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."
"The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names."
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