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“Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it.”
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Harrison Birtwistle
#Theory Quotes
#Reactions Quotes
#Minimalism Quotes
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“Music is such a problem in the time it takes.”
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Harrison Birtwistle
#Problem Quotes
#Music Is Quotes
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“My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.”
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Harrison Birtwistle
#Theatre Quotes
#Pieces Quotes
#Opera Quotes
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“My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter.”
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Harrison Birtwistle
#Ideas Quotes
#Musical Quotes
#Opera Quotes
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“One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.”
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Harrison Birtwistle
#Writing Quotes
#Writing Music Quotes
#Music Is Quotes
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“People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English music, but that English music is becoming more like me.”
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Harrison Birtwistle
#Writing Quotes
#People Quotes
#Becoming Quotes
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“The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles.”
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Harrison Birtwistle
#Different Quotes
#Stories Quotes
#Opera Quotes
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“The piece that had a large influence on me was Turangalila.”
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Harrison Birtwistle
#Pieces Quotes
#Influence Quotes
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“The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.”
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Harrison Birtwistle
#Names Quotes
#Giving Quotes
#Influence Quotes
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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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Harrison Birtwistle
#Thinking Quotes
#Sound Quotes
#Pretentious Quotes
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“When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18.”
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Harrison Birtwistle
#Kids Quotes
#Age Quotes
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“You either are or you're not.”
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Harrison Birtwistle
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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.”
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Harrison Birtwistle
#Attitude Quotes
#Years Quotes
#Theatre Quotes
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“In the end it doesn't matter what you do.”
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Harrison Birtwistle
#Matter Quotes
#Ends Quotes
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“I'm not an architectural composer.”
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Harrison Birtwistle
#Composer Quotes
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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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Harrison Birtwistle
#Theory Quotes
#Wanted Quotes
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“I don't have ideas so much as there are things which constantly evolve... there are various threads or layers, if you like, which change.”
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Harrison Birtwistle
#Ideas Quotes
#Layers Quotes
#Things Change Quotes
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“I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism.”
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Harrison Birtwistle
#Thinking Quotes
#Gone Quotes
#Way Quotes
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“I'm not a music lover in the sense that I look for something to have on. I've never had that attitude to music.”
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Harrison Birtwistle
#Attitude Quotes
#Alaska Quotes
#Looks Quotes
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“When I was confronted with official tuition, the academic thing, I could see no relationship whatever between that and the music I'd been writing since I was 11.”
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Harrison Birtwistle
#Writing Quotes
#Sea Quotes
#Tuition Quotes
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“I don't think there is much American music.”
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Harrison Birtwistle
#Thinking Quotes
#Usa Quotes
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“My attitude to writing is like when you do wallpapering, you remember where all the little bits are that don't meet. And then your friends say: It's terrific!”
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Harrison Birtwistle
#Attitude Quotes
#Writing Quotes
#Littles Quotes
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“It's the irrational things that interest me.”
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Harrison Birtwistle
#Irrational Quotes
#Interest Quotes
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“I always write the pieces I want to write.”
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Harrison Birtwistle
#Writing Quotes
#Pieces Quotes
#Want Quotes
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“I didn't have a record player.”
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Harrison Birtwistle
#Player Quotes
#Records Quotes
#Record Players Quotes
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“I think there are influences that you open the door to, and influences that come under the door.”
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Harrison Birtwistle
#Thinking Quotes
#Doors Quotes
#Influence Quotes
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“I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.”
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Harrison Birtwistle
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“Composing's not voluntary, you know. There's no choice, you're not free. You're landed with an idea and you have responsibility to that idea.”
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Harrison Birtwistle
Source : The Observer, April 14, 1996.
#Responsibility Quotes
#Ideas Quotes
#Choices Quotes
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