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- Criticism
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I composed, I heard my music played by the orchestra within days of completion of the score. No master at a conservatory, no matter how revered, can teach as much by verbal criticism as can a cold and analytical hearing of one's own music being played.
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I don't even have a cell phone. I don't know how they work.
- Difficult
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When you're working with music that is invariably better than you are, it's difficult to become swell-headed.
- He
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John Williams is, without question, talented. He writes very good scores and very good melodies and all that.
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I run around so much that I finally reasoned that composing is the one musical endeavour which you can do anywhere, anytime.
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I stuck around in Hollywood for too long. I was there a long time, and when I left, I was smart enough to realise that what I was leaving was not just the movie business. I wanted to get rid of the whole atmosphere.
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I'm on very good terms with all my former wives.
- Me
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I have a great many shortcomings, but writing for something on time has never bothered me.
- Things
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I don't write things that are wildly abstractly atonal.
- Music
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Elliott Carter does not write the kind of music that the kids go off to school whistling.
- Interested
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I finally wasn't interested in writing music that played while actors talked.
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- Nov 07, 2020
A Beethoven symphony should be rehearsed like chamber music, only for a lot more people.
- Magic
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People who don't do jazz think it's black magic. But really, it's just a matter of getting used to it. It's fun to gamble. The trick is not to fall back on the things you've done before.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've had the healthy and sobering experience of constantly working with music that is invariably better than any performance of it can be.
- Extraordinarily
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I remain extraordinarily proud of the Vaughan Williams symphonies I recorded with the LSO, and in the 1980s and '90s, I made an almost complete cycle of orchestral works by Richard Strauss with the Vienna Philharmonic.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a small group of music critics in the States who will forgive you anything - jazz, a long prison term, or what have you - anything but scoring a Hollywood musical.
- Jazz
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I don't ever consciously change gears when I play jazz or classical. It's all music.
- Music
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Music critics have made it quite clear that any composer who ever contributed a four-bar jingle to a film was to be referred to as a 'Hollywood composer' from then on, even if the rest of his output were to consist solely of liturgical organ sonatas.
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