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They are the silent griefs which cut the heart-strings. — John Ford

I think it was Columbia politics, Columbia Records politics that, that, Tom Wilson left [Bob Dylan] after "Like A Rolling Stone". — Al Kooper

I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism. — Harrison Birtwistle

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. — Harrison Birtwistle

The piece that had a large influence on me was Turangalila. — Harrison Birtwistle

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. — Harrison Birtwistle

Music is such a problem in the time it takes. — Harrison Birtwistle

I think there are influences that you open the door to, and influences that come under the door. — Harrison Birtwistle

One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things. — Harrison Birtwistle

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. — Harrison Birtwistle

The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles. — Harrison Birtwistle

Life is not dependent upon our classifications and our categories, our science. But we are. We find it interesting and helpful. — Frederick Lenz

It's the irrational things that interest me. — Harrison Birtwistle

Ethel Jackson was the cool side of my pillow when I had a fever. — Lesley Kagen

I once loved a girl who almost loved me, but not as much as she loved John Cusack. — Chuck Klosterman

You either are or you're not. — Harrison Birtwistle

I didn't have a record player. — Harrison Birtwistle

I always write the pieces I want to write. — Harrison Birtwistle

My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces. — Harrison Birtwistle

My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter. — Harrison Birtwistle

When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18. — Harrison Birtwistle

I don't think there is much American music. — Harrison Birtwistle

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. — Harrison Birtwistle

If 13 is unlucky, then 12 and 14 are guilty by association. — Mitch Hedberg

This sounds horribly pretentious, but I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it. — Harrison Birtwistle

When I dealt with set theory, I could never make it be the music that I wanted. — Harrison Birtwistle

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. — Harrison Birtwistle

As we practice meditation, we get used to stillness and eventually are able to make
friends with the quietness of our sensations. — Sharon Salzberg

Push away the past, that vessel in which all emotions curdle to regret. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names. — Harrison Birtwistle

In the end it doesn't matter what you do. — Harrison Birtwistle

I'm not an architectural composer. — Harrison Birtwistle

I wrote music as soon as I knew notation. — Harrison Birtwistle

We revisit those places where we experienced love, as pilgrims return to holy places, to be reminded, restored, and reaffirmed by them. — Phyllis Grissim-Theroux