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Quotes by Composer
"Most people think an artist tries to be original, but originality is the last thing that develops in the artist."
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"We're doing a workshop over the first two weeks of December, I believe, with Graciella Daniele directing it."
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"Almost every one of my various zero numbered birthdays has had a big concert in London and often in Paris."
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"The jarring change going from an urban environment to an extremely remote natural environment is extremely inspiring. It's constantly stimulating, it's like a slap in the face."
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"I had already done Rainbow in Curved Air and had a big record on CBS. I was launched to have a long career and then I just dropped out and went to India."
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"In a jazz atmosphere, the audience members were so quiet and respectful of the musicians that you felt you were almost part of a meeting at a church or a temple, where everyone was completely in tune with the sermon and what the whole event was about."
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"By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow."
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"Great music does not just make me feel good. It means something. It makes us understand. It makes us happy."
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"Achievements, seldom credited to their source, are the result of unspeakable drudgery and worries."
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"Melodic invention is one of the surest signs of a divine gift."
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"Music is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films."
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"Do not rely on unplanned music; it comes out as though it were planned, but planned by someone you cross the street to avoid."
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"There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side."
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"When I was in Paris, all of the German refugees began to flow in and it was a very sad time."
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"Aaron Copland was a man that had a very specific point of view about what music should be which was that, he felt that new music should have the composer should show a personality in his music."
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"When I wished to sing of love, it turned to sorrow. And when I wished to sing of sorrow, it was transformed for me into love."
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"Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out."
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"Inspiration is enough to give expression to the tone in singing, especially when the song is without words."
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"Connection is what one is after in probably most media, but certainly in film, which is an immersive medium."
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"Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end."
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"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."
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"I'm lucky to be in a profession where you can keep getting better."
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"I don't see 'lines of force' as being destructive, except to the extent that they are exclusively traceable through observance of the path of distorted material left in their wake."
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"Stravinsky used Mother Goose. He was influenced by Mother Goose, indirectly, but very beautifully."
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"I've been using the Mac solely for years, and got very comfortable with it."
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"Well I tried to, but I could never write anything that I liked or was worthwhile. I threw it all out and realized that I had to make a serious study- that my tastes were far more advanced than my abilities."
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"I was offered a free villa in Hollywood, but I said no thank you, I prefer to live in Italy."
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"I really didn't have a plan, I just went in and started playing. one of my specialties was to be able to play for a really long time without stopping and I would play these repeated patterns for hours and hours and I wouldn't seem to get tired."
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"If the work of art is to continue pursuing the vision of both being in and of the world but nevertheless in some fashion being more than just one more object to the mounting clutter, this is the specific point, I think, where this must be assured."
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"It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of "culture.""
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"Throughout the evening I would be recording these long saxophone delays and about four hours into the concert, if I wanted to take a break I would just play back the saxophone."
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"The nice thing about doing a crossword puzzle is, you know there is a solution."
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"Verse, singing, and speech have a common origin."
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"But in the next world I shan't be doing music, with all the striving and disappointments. I shall be being it."
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"There's something inimical about the camera and song."
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"Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the conductor; we do not remember him in it."
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"I guess all songs is folk songs. I never heard no horse sing 'em."
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