Quotes by Harrison Birtwistle - Page 1

You either are or you're not.
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I didn't have a record player.
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Player
Record Players
Records
Record Player
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I'm not an architectural composer.
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Composer
Architectural
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I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.
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Notation
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In the end it doesn't matter what you do.
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Ends
Matter
In The End
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I always write the pieces I want to write.
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Pieces
Want
Writing
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I don't think there is much American music.
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American Music
Thinking
Usa
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It's the irrational things that interest me.
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Interest
Irrational
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Music is such a problem in the time it takes.
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Music Is
Problem
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My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.
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Formal
Opera
Pieces
Theatre
Operas
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The piece that had a large influence on me was Turangalila.
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Influence
Pieces
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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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Kids
Age
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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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Theory
Wanted
Music Never Make
Dealt
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My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter.
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Ideas
Musical
Opera
Subject Matter
Musical Ideas
Operas
Subject
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The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.
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Giving
Influence
Names
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The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles.
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Different
Different Angles
Opera
Stories
Angles
Contradictions
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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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Doors
Influence
Thinking
Door
Influences
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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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Basic Things
Music Is
Writing
Archetypal
Basic
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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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Pretentious
Sound
Thinking
Music Think Like
Existed
Horribly
Sounds
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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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Attitude
Alaska
Looks
Music Lover
Lover
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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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Cubism
Gone
Radical
Severe
Thinking
Way
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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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Evolve
Ideas
Layers
Things Change
Threads
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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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Minimalism
Moved
Reactions
Theory
Reaction
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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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Choices
Ideas
Responsibility
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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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Becoming
People
Writing
Music Me People
People Say
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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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Attitude
Bits
Littles
Terrific
Writing
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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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Academic
Sea
Tuition
Writing
Confronted
Official
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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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Attitude
Different Attitude
Opera
Theatre
They Say
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There are rhythmic ideas which sometimes only work up to a point. In writing there are moments when it just comes off the page, it's not just a collection of notes.
Harrison Birtwistle / Composer
Ideas
Moments
Notes
Pages
Writing
Collection
Work Sometimes Ideas
Page
Rhythmic
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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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Attitude
Next Week
Years
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