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• ‟ I don't ever consciously change gears when I play jazz or classical. It's all music.

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• ‟ There's a small group of music critics in the States who will forgive you anything - jazz, a long prison term, or what have you - anything but scoring a Hollywood musical.

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• ‟ When I composed, I heard my music played by the orchestra within days of completion of the score. No master at a conservatory, no matter how revered, can teach as much by verbal criticism as can a cold and analytical hearing of one's own music being played.

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• ‟ When you're working with music that is invariably better than you are, it's difficult to become swell-headed.

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• ‟ Elliott Carter does not write the kind of music that the kids go off to school whistling.

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• ‟ I finally wasn't interested in writing music that played while actors talked.

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• ‟ A Beethoven symphony should be rehearsed like chamber music, only for a lot more people.

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• ‟ I've had the healthy and sobering experience of constantly working with music that is invariably better than any performance of it can be.

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• ‟ Music critics have made it quite clear that any composer who ever contributed a four-bar jingle to a film was to be referred to as a 'Hollywood composer' from then on, even if the rest of his output were to consist solely of liturgical organ sonatas.

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• ‟ The thing is that I'm naturally curious about a lot of different disciplines in music, and I enjoy doing them. And as long as people are nice enough to let me, I'll keep on trying.

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