I think there are influences that you open the door to, and influences that come under the door.
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I'm not a music lover in the sense that I look for something to have on. I've never had that attitude to music.Harrison Birtwistle
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.
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When I dealt with set theory, I could never make it be the music that I wanted.
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I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism.
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When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18.
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This sounds horribly pretentious, but I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it.
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