Quotes by Harrison Birtwistle

It's the irrational things that interest me.

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In the end it doesn't matter what you do.

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I'm not an architectural composer.

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I'm not a music lover in the sense that I look for something to have...

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I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.

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I think there are influences that you open the door to, and influences that come...

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I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather...

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I don't think there is much American music.

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I don't have ideas so much as there are things which constantly evolve... there are...

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I didn't have a record player.

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I always write the pieces I want to write.

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You either are or you're not.

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