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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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"My life is a series of invitations accepted and invitations rejected, and the place I now find myself is often a result of accepting the wrong invitations and rejecting the right ones."
"There is always a good choice and there is always a better choice. There is always the best choice and there is always a choice to choose. If only you would think of the summary of your life tomorrow today, you would yearn to live and leave a distinctive footprint and you would never stand for anything at all."
"Who you are is why you choose the friends and situations in your life."
"To be careless in making decisions is to naively believe that a single decision impacts nothing more than that single decision, for a single decision can spawn a thousand others that were entirely unnecessary or it can bring peace to a thousand places we never knew existed."
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"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."
"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."
"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."
"The French Revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Don't build on the past. There is no past."
"You become a great composer when you win a Pulitzer. But I think that now it's a completely meaningless award."
"Eighty percent of my pieces gravitate towards an A, as a tonal thing, not at the beginning, but somewhere in it."
"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 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."
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