You either are or you're not.
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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 wrote music as soon as I knew notation.
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The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles.
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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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The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.
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