- Nov 07, 2020
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- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I dealt with set theory, I could never make it be the music that I wanted.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
This sounds horribly pretentious, but I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it.
- Nov 07, 2020
The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The theatre only knows what it's doing next week, not like the opera, where they say: What are we going to do in five years' time? A completely different attitude.
- Different
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- Nov 07, 2020
The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English music, but that English music is becoming more like me.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter.
- Pieces
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- Nov 07, 2020
My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.
- Problem
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music is such a problem in the time it takes.
- Now
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- Nov 07, 2020
Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it.
- Irrational
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's the irrational things that interest me.
- In The End
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the end it doesn't matter what you do.
- Composer
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- Nov 07, 2020