There are rhythmic ideas which sometimes only work up to a point. In writing there are moments when it just comes off the page, it's not just a collection of notes.
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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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When I dealt with set theory, I could never make it be the music that I wanted.
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