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When I wished to sing of love, it turned to sorrow. And when I wished to sing of sorrow, it was transformed for me into love.

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God knows when I'm going to retire. I think I'm going to be bored.

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If nothing is at risk, nothing is established.

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A person improvising is sometimes very fortunate that just at that second things coincide.

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I have wit in my work and a sense of humor, but I do not use irony in any way.

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I don't dare postulate about science, but I know that it takes both emotion and intellect in order for art to happen.

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Well, in Japan, I have got a group of musicians that I have worked with a lot, that concentrate just on the hardcore stuff, say, that Naked City has been working on. We have like a repertoire of sixty songs now.

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In my own recent String Trio I attempt to superimpose two quite different sets of formal strategies, both of which, ultimately, refer back to historical precedent.

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Brahms' Variations are better than mine, but mine were written before his.

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I'm getting ready to write a piece now, and it's been six months thinking about it, changing the instrumentation, changing the name, doing more reading.

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And harmony means that the relationship between all the elements used in a composition is balanced, is good.

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That was my challenge as a composer. Like with anything, to keep yourself interested in doing what you do, you set yourself challenges. So I said, Okay, I'll try to write a hundred tunes in a year.

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It breaks even. We lose ten, twenty grand every year. But then the people who are working say, Look, I'll kick this back in, I don't need to take this profit share. It's very cooperative.

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Beware of missing chances otherwise it may be altogether too late some day.

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I strongly suggest that we play down basics like who influenced whom, and instead study the way the influence is transformed, in other words how the artist made it his own.

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A theatre receives recognition through its initiative, which is indispensable for first-rate performances.

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Anybody can put things together that belong together. to put things together that don't go together, and make it work, that takes genius like Mozart's. Yet he is presented in the play Amadeus as a kind of silly boy whom the gods loved.

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By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow.

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A melody is not merely something you can hum.

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My background was in performing originally.

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The principal task of a conductor is not to put himself in evidence but to disappear behind his functions as much as possible. We are pilots, not servants.

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Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are but stages toward this Ideal, which Christ's religion illuminates with His divine light.

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No, the great musical encounter was with Cage, who exploded all those ideas which were already starting to get a bit institutionalised.

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One bites into the brass mouthpiece of his wooden cudgel, and the other blows his cheeks out on a French horn. Do you call that Art

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It's a matter of keeping people on a spontaneous edge.

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