Harrison Birtwistle Quotes

This sounds horribly pretentious, but I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it.

Harrison Birtwistle

Harrison Birtwistle

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It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.

M. Ward
- People
- Music
- Luxury
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.

Vaughn Monroe
- People
- Up
- Music
Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.

Adam Levine Maroon 5
- Music
- School
- High
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.

Garry Wills
- Think
- Interesting
- Church
If it helped you get your music off the ground, I'm glad you done it.

Carl Perkins
- Music
- Done
- You
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.

Waylon Jennings
- Time
- Music
- Believe