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Quotes by Composer
"Let people have an education and you can't stop them."
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"However, very recently I have come to an understanding that complex music is not necessarily pleasant."
15
"Every writer I've ever spoken to feels fraudulent in some way or other."
15
"So now, thirty years, forty years later, I mean, I could find a whole orchestra of a thousand to put these things together in New York City alone. In those days, if I could scrape up twenty musicians to do this it was something extraordinary."
15
"I don't want to wear my compositional tools on my sleeve."
15
"Consider what a romantic expedition you are on; take notes."
15
"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."
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"I cannot conceive of music that expresses absolutely nothing."
15
"I am certainly not arguing for the de facto autonomy of the individual work, even though there is much to be said for making the attempt to see it in that light as one facet of the reception process."
15
"I wanted to make a classical piece that was actually designed to be a CD, not designed for performance."
15
"It's rather like attending a university seminar where you are talking to a few gifted specialists who deliver a paper to an audience of their peers. That's one way of making music."
14
"In the nineteenth century the more grandiose word inspiration began to replace the word idea in the arts."
14
"The manager is to be blamed who distributes parts to his players which they are unable to act."
14
"Franz Kline, who became known for his black and white paintings, did a whole series of gorgeous landscapes and wonderful portraits that may still hang in Greenwich Village."
14
"Love or not, I wouldn't subject a wife to the road. It's punishment."
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"I fell into lyric writing because of music. I backed into it."
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"We will hang you, never fear, Most politely, most politely."
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"Divorce is one of the most financially traumatic things you can go through. Money spent on getting mad or getting even is money wasted."
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"I beg of you... never assume an inner or an outer pose, never a disguise."
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"Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character."
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"A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something in nature seems to reveal all consciousness, cannot be explained at noon. Yet it is part of the day's unity."
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"Now, there are sometimes making a connection between one section and another that sometimes you do want to see the pattern because it helps you to lead into the next thing - it's a rhetorical thing, where you just see how the pattern has to go into the next thing."
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"Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist."
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