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I'm not an architectural composer.

- Harrison Birtwistle
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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!

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

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.

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I'm not an architectural composer.

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