Harrison Birtwistle Quotes
One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.
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I'm involved in music and fashion a lot more than I used to be, so my style has definitely changed - for the better, of course. It's given me greater insight into what colours work, what looks good on camera, and what I feel comfortable in.
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I love writing journalism because it's all over in two hours and comes straight off the top of the head. Writing novels is soooooo much harder. It's the hardest thing I've ever done.
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I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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There's so much music in Austin, and it's all so different.
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Napster hijacked our music without asking. They never sought our permission. Our catalog of music simply became available as free downloads on the Napster system.
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I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything.
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If we're going to go really deep, we're all trying to live forever. My music is my way of doing that.
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I don't take myself too seriously.
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I love writing. Given a choice, after directing for all these years, and if given an army of talented directors, I would not direct at all.
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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
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I wasn't one of those kids who grew up wanting to write or who read a particular book and thought: 'I want to do that!' I always told stories and wrote them down, but I never thought writing was a career path, even though, clearly, someone was writing the books and newspapers and magazines.
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I like collaboration because, first of all, I'm good at writing lyrics. I don't know how to make beats. I don't play instruments. I'm not a good singer. So even when you see a solo album of mine, it's still a collaboration.
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But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.
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I am truly at my happiest not when I am writing an aria for an actor or making a grand political or social point. I am at my happiest when I've figured out a fun way for somebody to slip on a banana peel.
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My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.
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I go into military communities and do fundraisers and that kind of thing with the band, because I know that the music can help do a lot of things. It can bring communities together, it can raise awareness... and it entertains.
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Music is really something that makes people whole.
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The thing I am attracted to is just good writing and stories that are based somewhat in reality.
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Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling.
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Emotionally, I'm about 13.
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I'm not a Method actor. I don't believe acting should be psychodrama. I look within myself and see what I can find to play the role with. If I'm playing a blind man, I don't go around blindfolded for days. A lot of good actors would, but I don't go in for that very much. I like to just make it up as I go along.
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I'm very superstitious about going on other people's sets. You have to ask permission of the director; you shouldn't just turn up and skulk about in the background. It's very rude. You have to ask them personally. It's like a vampire being invited into a house.
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One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.
