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.
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It's the irrational things that interest 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 always write the pieces I want to write.
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