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The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.

- Harrison Birtwistle
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The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.

There are rhythmic ideas which sometimes only work up to a point. In writing there are moments when it just comes off the page, it's not just a collection of notes.

I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.

My attitude to writing is like when you do wallpapering, you remember where all the little bits are that don't meet. And then your friends say: It's terrific!

I'm not a music lover in the sense that I look for something to have on. I've never had that attitude to music.

The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles.

It's the irrational things that interest me.

Music is such a problem in the time it takes.

I don't have ideas so much as there are things which constantly evolve... there are various threads or layers, if you like, which change.

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The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.

The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.

The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.

The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.

The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.

The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.

The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.

The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.

The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.

The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.

The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.

The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.

The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.

The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.

The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.