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Harrison Birtwistle Quotes
I always write the pieces I want to write. - Harrison Birtwistle Quotes
I didnt have a record player. - Harrison Birtwistle Quotes
I dont have ideas so much as there are things which constantly evolve... there are various threads or layers, if you like, which change. - Harrison Birtwistle Quotes
I dont think there is much American music. - Harrison Birtwistle Quotes
I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism. - Harrison Birtwistle Quotes
I think there are influences that you open the door to, and influences that come under the door. - Harrison Birtwistle Quotes
I wrote music as soon as I knew notation. - Harrison Birtwistle Quotes
Im not a music lover in the sense that I look for something to have on. Ive never had that attitude to music. - Harrison Birtwistle Quotes
Im not an architectural composer. - Harrison Birtwistle Quotes
In the end it doesnt matter what you do. - Harrison Birtwistle Quotes
Its the irrational things that interest me. - Harrison Birtwistle Quotes
Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. Its absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it. - Harrison Birtwistle Quotes
Music is such a problem in the time it takes. - Harrison Birtwistle Quotes
My attitude to writing is like when you do wallpapering, you remember where all the little bits are that dont meet. And then your friends say: Its terrific! - Harrison Birtwistle Quotes
My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces. - Harrison Birtwistle Quotes
My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter. - Harrison Birtwistle Quotes
One thing Ive tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things. - Harrison Birtwistle Quotes
People say my music is English. I dont know what it is. Maybe its not me writing English music, but that English music is becoming more like me. - Harrison Birtwistle Quotes
The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles. - Harrison Birtwistle Quotes
The piece that had a large influence on me was Turangalila. - Harrison Birtwistle Quotes
The theatre only knows what its 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 Quotes
The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names. - Harrison Birtwistle Quotes
There are rhythmic ideas which sometimes only work up to a point. In writing there are moments when it just comes off the page, its not just a collection of notes. - Harrison Birtwistle Quotes
This sounds horribly pretentious, but I like to think that if music hadnt existed, I could have invented it. - Harrison Birtwistle Quotes
When I dealt with set theory, I could never make it be the music that I wanted. - Harrison Birtwistle Quotes
When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18. - Harrison Birtwistle Quotes
When I was confronted with official tuition, the academic thing, I could see no relationship whatever between that and the music Id been writing since I was 11. - Harrison Birtwistle Quotes
You either are or youre not. - Harrison Birtwistle Quotes
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