Every time I'm a bit surprised always, what the patterns look like and what the whole thing looks like because, of course, I primarily hear.
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When I was speaking about communicating, I meant that the listener - we have to reach the listener; otherwise, of course, you're writing the piece, as I say, only for the satisfaction of seeing it on the paper for yourself, and then it ends right there.
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No, I think that a person writes a poem because they have an inner urge of something that they want to express, and I think it's that inner urge that you want to express when you write a piece of music.
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It doesn't matter how far I may have carried some of the things, but I always pull back at the point where it ceases any longer to really be music.
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Yes, well, I tell you, because once I have completed a work, I simply am interested only in what I may hear in the next work that's coming.
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