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The path I follow is still an Orthodox path. You have to follow a path; otherwise, it becomes a little bit new-age, a bit of this, a bit of that.

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In his late quartets, Beethoven introduces an element that shouldn't be there, that should be left for meditation, though I love them. I can see that through them came Wagner and Mahler and Schoenberg and Berg. And then came Tracey Emin. And I can see it all as one downward path.

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Every woman I have known has actually deepened my spiritual awareness. Even if I have been a selfish man and treated them badly... There were two women, I won't name them, who had a powerful religious effect on me. The ancient idea of a muse is there.

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The music is something outside myself that's also inside myself... Music and a sense of another presence always went hand in hand. Even when I was three, I would improvise music, and my maternal grandfather would act as an audience and used to applaud. I would imitate things like thunder and rain.

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My way towards God has been to write music.

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I think there will always be a possibility that God doesn't exist because He is infinitude and into that infinitude must come that possibility.

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I've always been aware of mortality because I've always had ill health most of my life.

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I don't hate pop music. I liked the Beatles, but then, I knew them.

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I used to think there was something dirty about being paid for something which is a sacred thing to do. I can't disconnect the act of writing music from the act of prayer. If anyone tries to stop me working, it feels like someone is trying to stop me from taking communion.

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I don't think Beethoven expresses religious truth. He expresses a human truth.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Composer

Born: January 28th, 1944

Died: November 12th, 2013

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