Harrison Birtwistle Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)
Harrison Birtwistle quotes and sayings page 3 (composer). These are the last 8 out of 28 quotes we have.
“Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it.”
“My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.”
“My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter.”
“One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.”
“The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.”
“You either are or you're not.”
“The theatre only knows what it's doing next week, not like the opera, where they say: What are we going to do in five years' time? A completely different attitude.”
“When I was confronted with official tuition, the academic thing, I could see no relationship whatever between that and the music I'd been writing since I was 11.”
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