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Food waste is an atrocity that is reducible, if not completely avoidable.

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The daily glitter of skyscrapers competing with the stars is an unnecessary, unforgivable decadence.

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Live in the present moment. The past and future are nonexistent. Only the present can be grasped or, better, embraced.

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Silence is the necessary soil for any thought to flourish.

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Few occupations pass the solitary hours more fruitfully than the playing of a musical instrument.

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To me, spirituality is the everyday stuff which we're dealing with all the time. It's not going into some ecstatic trance. It's changing a nappy, or making a meal at the end of a very tiring day.

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I wanted to be a monk at some time in my life, or a priest, so there was a kind of reflex quite early on not to be attached to anything that might be taken away.

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In anything, there has to be that moment of fasting, really, in order to enjoy the feast.

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I think there are very few people that I would give the title of genius to, really, but Beethoven unquestionably is one of them.

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Most people are at a concert because they want to be inspired, entertained, moved; we musicians have the mission to be bringers of joy, of ecstasy.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Composer

Born: November 22nd, 1961

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