Krzysztof Penderecki Quotes

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Krzysztof Penderecki, is quoted 74 times on QuoteForever. The subjects that come up most often are Composers, Poland, Roots and Compose.

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I'm really just a frustrated violinist.
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Frustrated

Violinist
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One should live with history round one.
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Round
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Composers are very individual creatures.
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Composers
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I love Shostakovich. We were good friends.
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Good Friends
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I have lived through very difficult times.
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Difficult Times
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I always felt independent of musical fashion.
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Independent

Musical
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Usually composers need a reason to write. I need a deadline.
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Deadline

Composers
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All I'm interested in is liberating sound beyond all tradition.
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Liberating
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I have written many works to accompany Old Church Slavonic texts.
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Accompany

Texts
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Every day I write. I am not waiting for a great idea from heaven.
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Great Idea

Heaven
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I think the best publicity I can get for my music is to conduct it.
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Publicity

Best Music I Can
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That is our dilemma in Poland. We don't like to be ruled by the East.
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Dilemma

Poland

Ruled
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I don't write political music. Political music is immediately obsolete.
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Obsolete

Immediately
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Poles have a mistrust of the West and an even deeper mistrust of the East.
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Deeper

Mistrust

Poles
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There is some limit to finding, always, new things. It's rather impossible.
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New Things

Limit
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Poland is my home, my roots are here. There is nowhere I would rather live.
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Poland

Roots

Nowhere
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I have found my perfect place on earth in Poland, in Luslawice, near Krakow.
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Poland

Near
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The circumstances In which I grew up In Poland were not auspicious for humor.
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Poland
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I started studying counterpoint and theory with a physicist whose hobby was music.
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Physicist

Counterpoint

Studying
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I studied violin since I was a boy, and my dream was to be a violinist and to play.
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Violin
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You can only learn orchestration if you have the possibility of using an orchestra.
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Orchestra

Possibility
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I have about 1,700 species of trees, almost everything that can grow in our climate.
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Species

Almost

Almost Everything

Trees
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I have always had an audience for my music, even in the very avant garde, crazy times.
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Audience
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In summer, I like to sit and compose on the porch, where I can see people come and go.
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Porch

Summer

People See I Can

Come And Go

People See Where

Compose
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I'm not a minimalist, not at all. I feel much better, safer even, having a large piece.
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Minimalist

Large

Piece

Safer
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Listening to classical music is like reading philosophy books. Not everybody has to do it.
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Classical Music

Classical
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Writing music is something very natural... this is the way to communicate with other people.
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Communicate

Music People Way
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At school, I wrote in the style of the Dutch composers. After I graduated, a new style set in.
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Dutch

Composers

Graduated
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After so many years, I don't really think writing has to be absolutely new. No. It has to be good work.
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Good Work

Work Good New

So Many Years
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I don't like to be alone. I like to have my family around me. They disturb me, of course, but that's OK.
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Alone Family Me

Disturb
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I must never change my way - because of critics who may not like it - I preserve my language and my style.
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Critics

Preserve
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Our house was in the middle of town; behind it was the ghetto, from which Jews were sent to concentration camps.
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Camps

Concentration

Ghetto

Jews
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If I were reborn, if I were a teen-ager now, starting my career as a composer, I would do again what I have done.
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Reborn
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It's no longer possible to find something which will shock other people, because everything has already been done.
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Shock

People Will Find
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Chopin is a great composer who influenced many, many important composers. He was a great innovator, especially in harmony.
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Composer

Harmony

Chopin

Influenced
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The communists saw what we did in the arts as the only product of socialism that was known in the West, so they tolerated it.
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Socialism

Arts

Communists

Product

Tolerated
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In my own works I am an obsessionist. Though I write humorous music too, much of it has been obsessed by death and the tragic.
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Death

Humorous

My Own

Too Much

Tragic

Works

Though
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I'm never satisfied. I don't think about what has come before because I'm trying to find something different than I did before.
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Satisfied
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I began as a violinist, not a composer. Thus my contact with orchestral musicians, with the source of music, is very important.
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Contact

Violinist

Orchestral

Thus
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My grandfather taught me trees and the Latin names of trees when I was five or six. His father was a forester, so he knew them all.
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Grandfather

Latin

Six
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Traveling, talking to people, and rehearsing, I'm always finding new ideas. If I stay in one place, maybe I won't have so many ideas.
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New Ideas

Rehearsing

People New Ideas

Finding

People Always New
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For years, my favorite composers had been Monteverdi and Bach. Then I began to rediscover the 19th century, see it from another perspective.
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Bach

Composers

Rediscover
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I don't really think my work breaks into periods. In fact, if you listen to my work in all its so-called periods, what you should hear is continuity.
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Continuity

Periods

Breaks

In Fact

So-Called
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My music is rather abstract and maybe even strange-sounding for some people, so maybe that's why it's been used in so many horror movies and thrillers.
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Abstract

Thrillers

Music Movies People

Horror Movies

Some People
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