At school, I wrote in the style of the Dutch composers. After I graduated, a new style set in.
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Traveling, talking to people, and rehearsing, I'm always finding new ideas. If I stay in one place, maybe I won't have so many ideas.
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My music is rather abstract and maybe even strange-sounding for some people, so maybe that's why it's been used in so many horror movies and thrillers.
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Our house was in the middle of town; behind it was the ghetto, from which Jews were sent to concentration camps.
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So many new things have been discovered in the 20th century that now, at the end of the century, we need some kind of synthesis, some musical language which will allow us just to write music.
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I don't like to be alone. I like to have my family around me. They disturb me, of course, but that's OK.
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The communists saw what we did in the arts as the only product of socialism that was known in the West, so they tolerated it.