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Quotes by Composer
"The one book necessary to be understood by a divine, is the Bible; any others are to be read, chiefly, in order to understand that."
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"Some months ago, while I was preparing a new work, I told a young cinema executive my intention of including in a soundtrack two themes from Bach. But when he asked me which has been the last hit from that Bach?, then I knew that I had no longer place in cinema."
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"I felt Brighton was a perfect ending to a really interesting career."
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"The impressionists, Debussy, Faure, in France, did take a few steps forward."
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"It's really the sound of the voices, the sound of the words, the sound of the sound that we're interested in."
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"For almost thirty years I repeatedly saw one and the same dream: I would arrive in Vienna at long last. I would feel really happy, for I was returning to my serene childhood."
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"When I speak of "cycles," I am referring to lengthy intervals of relative homogeneity, if not in the resolving of problems, than at least with respect to the consistency of their capacity to productively irritate."
17
"Well I guess my music came to prominence around one piece called 'In C' which I wrote in 1964 at that time it was called 'The Global Villages for Symphonic Pieces', because it was a piece built out of 53 simple patterns and the structure was new to music at that time."
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"When today's generation reads Jack's books or they listen to the music created by some of us, I believe that they see there is a different way of approaching today's life and today's sometimes seeming hopelessness that can provide answers."
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"So I went into jazz and performed in jazz clubs all over the country."
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"Music is music whether it is for the stage, rostrum or cinema ."
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"Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision."
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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,
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"Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them."
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"Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow."
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"Where there is devotional music, God is always at hand with His gracious presence."
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"I always try to think of a vocabulary to match different musical situations."
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"Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I."
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"The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles."
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"I've come up with another formulation about style: that it's essentially a manifestation of a certain habitual set of limitations. It's what a composer does NOT do that defines a style."
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"There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry."
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"I had to realize that the use of samples has its rules, too."
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"When I'm dead twenty-five years, people are going to begin to recognize me."
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"Well the least favourite question is the one that one's asked particularly about in Japan is what's the difference between theatre and cinema and I think, well, that's about eighty bucks."
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"Barbra Streisand is without a doubt one of the most honest people I have ever known. There is no doubt in my mind that she will not be doing any more concerts. Of course, she still will be making records and starring and directing in movies."
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