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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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You either are or you're not.

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

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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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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.

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

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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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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Composer

Born: July 15th, 1934

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