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"So many of the sounds that contemporary composers were trying to create were to be found in the traditional musics of the world. That was encouraging but also little daunting to think that you had to work so hard to be new and yet it was old."

"So many of the sounds that contemporary composers were trying to create were to be found in the traditional musics of the world. That was encouraging but also little daunting to think that you had to work so hard to be new and yet it was old."

Robert Morris, American Financier

Work, Encouraging, Composers, Old

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"I do remember, though, when I discovered the third! I was about five years old - it was a very pleasing sound. I remembered that if I hit one note, then skipped one and played the next, I could get this really good sound."

"I do remember, though, when I discovered the third! I was about five years old - it was a very pleasing sound. I remembered that if I hit one note, then skipped one and played the next, I could get this really good sound."

Robert Morris, American Financier

Old, Sound, Years

3

"It's almost Armageddon if the Japanese and Chinese don't buy our debt. I don't know where we could get the money. I think we've let ourselves get in a terrible situation and I think we ought to try and get out of it."

"It's almost Armageddon if the Japanese and Chinese don't buy our debt. I don't know where we could get the money. I think we've let ourselves get in a terrible situation and I think we ought to try and get out of it."

Julian Robertson, American Financier

2

"I never presumed that a technique of composition or an idea was so special that just using it would guarantee the quality of the music."

"I never presumed that a technique of composition or an idea was so special that just using it would guarantee the quality of the music."

Robert Morris, American Financier

Music, Quality, Idea

2

"Well, I don't know any piece by heart, but Mozart goes something like this... What do you think?"

"Well, I don't know any piece by heart, but Mozart goes something like this... What do you think?"

Robert Morris, American Financier

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