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Quotes by Composer
"Great music does not just make me feel good. It means something. It makes us understand. It makes us happy."
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"I almost never try to make the audience comfortable. I wouldn't want that if I were in the audience."
Want,
30
"Even before he had one book published, Jack was one of those people you could feel was very special."
30
"Electronic music used pure sounds, completely calibrated. You had to think digitally, as it were, in a way that allowed you to extend serial ideas into other parameters through technology."
30
"I don't have to worry No matter what they do to it, it works."
30
"A man endures misfortune without complaint."
29
"You can't possibly predict what will last or not. But once you attempt to write for the ages, you're doomed."
Will,
29
"It is impossible to imagine a more complete fusion with nature than that of the Gypsy."
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"Inspiration is enough to give expression to the tone in singing, especially when the song is without words."
29
"Every great inspiration is but an experiment."
29
"I listen to all kinds of music - new music, old music, music of my colleagues, everything."
29
"I've heard though that there is a younger generation of tonal French composers who are reacting with vigour."
29
"The next few years are going to be horrendous in the UK. The last thing we need is a Somali pirate-style raid on the few wealth creators who still dare to navigate Britain's gale-force waters."
29
"I write bars, for the musicians, because they have to be together."
29
"Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second."
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"Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end."
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"Never be ashamed to write a melody that people remember."
29
"So I went into jazz and performed in jazz clubs all over the country."
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"Film scores are often based on short themes, and it helps if you've got some way of developing these themes and making them sometimes last 4 minutes and sometimes last 40 seconds. One ends up doing it subconsciously."
Film,
29
"Well, rather than to give you my impression on Los Angeles, per se, my older sister's husband is and American, therefore I have a pretty good idea of the, perhaps the characteristics of Americans in general."
29
"If someone suddenly lost their director the day before shooting and wanted me to step in, I'd be willing to. But I'd do brain surgery the same way. I'm always up for something new."
Day,
29
"I write music to please myself. Hopefully the director's enjoying it too."
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"In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking but now, God knows, anything goes."
29
"The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too."
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