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pierre
boulez
french
composer and
conductor 'There
are problems
with funding,
that's
absolutely
true; but the
desire to
live in a
world where
art does
exist, is
really very
strong.'
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peter
greenaway
english filmmaker 'I
would say there has been no cinema yet. Nobody has yet
made a film.'
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richard
barrett
welsh composer 'A
piece of music becomes a world in which you can completely lose
yourself.'
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pierre
audi
lebanese opera director 'In
great art, generally, what counts is what the artist has not
done, rather than what he has done.'
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tristan
murail
french composer 'I
am attacking all theorists.'
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david
robertson
american conductor 'I
do have the feeling, very often, of being able to grasp a
thought in musical terms before I'm able to articulate it.'
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brian
ferneyhough
english composer 'So,
we're all tired. Now what? Manuscripts written in
Club Med sun block?'
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magnus
lindberg
finnish composer 'And
anyway, what is modernism? How can someone define it?'
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wolfgang
rihm
german
composer
'My
work stems
from
questions…
I always
begin in a
state of
knowing
nothing.'
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sir
harrison
birtwistle
english
composer 'Violence
is a
by-product of
my music,
it's not
something I
put
in… It's the
nature of the
material I
use, perhaps,
that equates
with
violence.'
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ursula
oppens
american
pianist 'When
I'm in my
most
optimistic
frame of
mind, I think
that music,
instead of
being
socially
behind the
rest of the
world, might
be socially a
little ahead
of it.'
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