I didn't have a record player.
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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.Harrison Birtwistle
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.
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One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.
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I don't think there is much American music.
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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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My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter.
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