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Quotes by Composer
"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."
17
"I was using tape loops for dancers and dance production. I had very funky primitive equipment, in fact technology wasn't very good no matter how much money you had."
16
"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."
16
"The ancient Greeks have a knack of wrapping truths in myths."
16
"As I sit down and start to work, I often panic. I stare at the empty piece of music paper. How can I say that my piece will be ready for performance next January when I do not have a recipe for making it happen?"
16
"Well, I think music for kids is never anything but experimental is it?"
16
"I was interested in opera and it seemed to me that the only possible theatre for contemporary opera would be television. So I started working towards a kind of television kind of opera."
16
"That by listening to some music, by reading some books, by looking at paintings, and most important by hanging out with one another - by collaborating with one another and creating your own network - you can achieve something that is much better than what is out there."
16
"People like Arvo Part would not have been taken seriously 20 years ago."
16
"I frequently hear our present period described as uncertain, confused, chaotic."
16
"Characters are an extreme form in Shakespeare's theater."
16
"Yes, I was invited to make the sound environment at a booth of a huge electronic company, during the Hanover Industrial Fair in 1973. It was a job. Slightly good paid. But not as much as my producer then told the press."
16
"I've heard though that there is a younger generation of tonal French composers who are reacting with vigour."
16
"More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children."
16
"It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for the pianists after me."
16
"I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it."
16
"Well, rather than to give you my impression on Los Angeles, per se, my older sister's husband is and American, therefore I have a pretty good idea of the, perhaps the characteristics of Americans in general."
16
"Let us take our children seriously! Everything else follows from this... only the best is good enough for a child."
16
"I think there have been some periods when the writing almost became a bit of a burden."
16
"He combines the manners of a Marquis with the morals of a Methodist."
16
"Blacks are about seven times more likely to live in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty than whites."
16
"There are always things to examine. What's great is not feeling that I have to refuse any of them. Maybe no good from a PR perspective, but from the point of view of everyday life, it keeps things interesting."
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