Peter Sculthorpe quotes
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“I love Australia passionately. I love our landscape. It's influenced most of my work, really. Almost everything I've written is about the landscape. Trying to find, the sacred, the spiritual in it.”
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“I often wonder if I was destined to be a composer. I think I decided and I followed my star.”
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“The inspiration for my work comes from areas spanning the stark regions of Newfoundland to the lush and fertile valleys of the South. The landscapes offer me form; the people I've met in these places give them color.”
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“Sadly, today there are only a few remaining speakers of kakadu or gagadju. The work, then, is concerned with my feelings about this place, its landscape, its change of seasons, its dry season and its wet, its cycle of life and death the melodic material in Kakadu, as in much of my recent music, was suggested by the contours and rhythms of Aboriginal chant.”
-- Peter Sculthorpe#Cycle Of Life Quotes #Life And Death Quotes #Feelings Quotes
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Source : A. A. Gill (2008). “Paper view: the best of the Sunday Times television reviews”, Orion Pub Co
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“Drawing Dead is a brilliant noir from one of Australia's most exciting new novelists.”
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“You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else”
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