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Quotes by Composer
"For over ten years or so game music has developed into a very large market."
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"If something is successful with the audience, it's automatically suspect; the reverse is to say that not to reach audiences is the greatest compliment an artist can receive!"
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"One of the aspects of form that I have been very interested in is stasis - the concept of form which is not so directional in time, not so much climactic form, but rather form which allows time, to stand still."
Time,
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"A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation."
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"Everyone seems to be in a kind of accelerated time mode that is beyond their own control."
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"After the war, once the bop revolution had taken hold, there were all kinds of young musicians, talented young musicians, who were ready for this fusion of classical and jazz."
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"When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18."
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"I must confess, my Spanish is not so good - except I read a little, so I started with the English but then determined that it would have to be in Spanish."
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"Certainly my only interest is not in Celtic music."
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"Silences between movements are employed only in order to bring the opposing duo to the fore."
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"I'm very aware of what you're talking about as I was involved with the radio in Africa in the same period as I was doing Concrete - I was doing both at the same time."
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"Consider what a romantic expedition you are on; take notes."
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"I'm like a decathlete who does all of the events he's used to, but is being forced by certain circumstances to focus on three events, and being forced to focus on events that he wasn't that interested in, and also weren't his strongest events."
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"As interesting as that music can occasionally be, I don't think it really replaces the other."
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"Besides merely some pleasure that we get out of the combinations of pitches together and lines, I think that there is some satisfaction that we get in the fact of having this diffuse thing organized very concretely and put onto a frame and have it actually decided."
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"In writing music, the structure of each piece is a very important factor."
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"We don't have access to a national forum that we had in those days, through the news magazines which were the television news of the time. It's very disturbing to me that we've sort of been pushed to the corners."
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"Movie music is noise... even more painful than my sciatica."
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"Writing seems to be more difficult as you move through the years."
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"When I came back I had to realize that IC was not in a very good shape - all the much money that we had because of the huge Ideal success, was gone. I was very upset."
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"And when they encounter works of art which show that using new media can lead to new experiences and to new consciousness, and expand our senses, our perception, our intelligence, our sensibility, then they will become interested in this music."
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"Music is a performance and needs the audience."
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"Suddenly a mist fell from my eyes and I knew the way I had to take."
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