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I find composition difficult. I never thought of myself as someone who can crank it out. I can't crank it out - I have to dig it out the hard way. In some sense, you become more confident in your technical apparatus, but it becomes harder to do something you haven't done already.

~Steven Stucky

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I think a great piece, whenever it was written, gets under our skin, makes us feel something. That's what Beethoven was trying to do.

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I don't think music teaches about mundane, everyday life. It teaches us what it is to be a human being.

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I'm trying to do the exact thing Verdi or Mendelssohn did - open up that spiritual space where we can all be fully ourselves.

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On my mental iPod, I always have Stravinsky and Ravel.

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I do believe that the Chinese are becoming international leaders in showing the way forward for concert music.

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Pulitzers are journalist-oriented, so the publicity machine kicks in for about two days. Then, you go back to normal.

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If you haven't heard my music before, 'Spirit Voices' is a great place to start.

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My own personal melting pot has no room for Hendrix or heavy metal, filled as it is with European ancestors such as Debussy, Sibelius, Bartok, Lutoslawski, and Ligeti.

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Americans' distrust of the conspicuously intellectual - a habit we learned, I suppose, on the frontier, but which remains a feature of the national character - has the virtue of puncturing the pretentious and exposing the fake, but it may also have impaired American listeners' patience for music that is especially complex or austere.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Composer

Born: November 7th, 1949

Died: February 14th, 2016

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