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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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• ‟ 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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• ‟ Music is such a problem in the time it takes.

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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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• ‟ I don't think there is much American music.

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• ‟ I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.

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

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

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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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