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Quotes by Composer
"Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm."
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"At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings."
23
"John Barry was the first film composer I was aware of. As a teenager I owned several of his Bond soundtracks."
23
"New Yorkers may think they're on some cutting edge, but that's not especially true. It is, however, the most exciting heterogeneous mess of a town I've ever seen."
May,
23
"I don't see how they can with most of my pieces, but I think it's unfortunate that they can through familiarity with flashy performances of a great deal of other music."
23
"But since the middle of the century in particular, the music has become very irregular in rhythm."
23
"A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one."
23
"Anytime we can take narcotics off the street it is significant because it takes them out of the hands of children. It certainly is not going to stop the drug problem, we have to work very, very hard."
23
"I said to my friends that if I was going to starve, I might as well starve where the food is good."
23
"So the ideology was that: use sounds as instruments, as sounds on tape, without the causality. It was no longer a clarinet or a spring or a piano, but a sound with a form, a development, a life of its own."
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"Or the other process that is important is that I compress longer sections of composed music, either found or made by myself, to such an extent that the rhythm becomes a timbre, and formal subdivisions become rhythm."
22
"Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading."
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"My true function within a society which embraces all of us is to continue an age-old tradition. This tradition is to create images from the depths of the imagination and to give them form, whether visual, intellectual or musical."
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"A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it."
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"Even if people censure me, they should do so hat in hand."
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"I try to decorate my imagination as much as I can."
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"Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup."
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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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"It makes sense to invest in new work. It's almost like having a research department in a scientific laboratory. You have to try things out. You'll make some bad mistakes. Some things will fail but at least you'll energise the organisation."
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"Recently I've been participating in radio and television talk programs doing broadcasts and conferences, and shooting my mouth off and really going to town."
22
"No, no, I didn't know him. He lost his mind around 1917 because of the tragedy of the Armenians."
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