The art music of the West has developed through out its history by means of individual geniuses, and out of the soil supporting them; non-Western musicians were born, and grew like the grasses of the field.
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My music has no significant rhythmic construction, but when I write music, I am always very concerned about the concept of time.
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Composition gives proper meaning to the natural streams of sound that penetrate the world.
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