Harrison Birtwistle Quotes
This sounds horribly pretentious, but I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it.
Quotes to Explore
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It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
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Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances, but we keep it slower when we broadcast. We have to please everybody, and that softer music appeals to the larger amount of people. It's like eating too much cake. You have to have your steak too.
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
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There's an interesting contrast between born Catholics and converts. Converts are often much more rule-directed. Catholicism isn't something that they breathed in from their childhood, so they think that if you don't toe the line on abstract doctrine you can't be part of the Church.
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If it helped you get your music off the ground, I'm glad you done it.
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But Buddy was an upper. He was happy. He loved music, and he was really happy. I don't know... I don't believe in reincarnation at all, but if all that stuff is true, then he might have been on his last time around.
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I think there is some credibility to the notion that marriage is an institution. It meant something very different hundreds of years ago when it became the norm for people to go off and pair.
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The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.
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I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.
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I like artists who have something to say, not wallpaper.
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I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things.
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I don't care about what people might call my style. It's just like when people call my music 'jangly,' 'dream,' 'oceanside,' whatever - I don't care. I'm just wearing whatever I can scrap together.
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Obviously, you want to honour the sound of your music, but I'm definitely open to trying new things and making myself use a different palette of sounds.
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I think the gay community, just like anybody, should be represented in all forms and all types.
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I tried being anorexic for four hours, and then I was like, I need some bagels.
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I'm all about telling stories. I like people to picture the music video in their head when they're just listening to the song.
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I like music a lot.
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I decide immediately if I like a person and if I do, then I'm myself, and if I don't, then I give nothing.
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I just think that the collective experience of going to see a film is something you can't recreate.
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In the end, it's a good investment for America to be involved in helping people get democratic governance - not to take over their country - but to help people be free. And that is an investment that will pay off in the future.
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I think I'd make a great superhero. I'm serious. I want to play a superhero, and I've already got one in mind. I think I've still got the body for the costume, and it's something I really want to do.
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Please remember, that even in your darkest moments, you still have the choice to focus your energy on the positive and create a better life.
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Some dreams tell us what we wish to believe. Some dreams tell us what we fear. Some dreams are of what we know though we may not know we knew it. The rarest dream is the dream that tells us what we did not know.
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This sounds horribly pretentious, but I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it.
