Harrison Birtwistle Quotes

• Creo que la música ha pasado por un periodo de algo muy severo, bastante radical, más bien como le ocurrió a la pintura con el cubismo.

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  Thinking, Gone, Way

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• Composing's not voluntary, you know. There's no choice, you're not free. You're landed with an idea and you have responsibility to that idea.

  Harrison Birtwistle

  Responsibility, Ideas, Choices

  The Observer, April 14, 1996.

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• Music is such a problem in the time it takes.

  Harrison Birtwistle

  Problem, Music Is

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• 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.

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  Writing, Ideas, Pages

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• In the end it doesn't matter what you do.

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  Matter, Ends

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• People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English music, but that English music is becoming more like me.

  Harrison Birtwistle

  Writing, People, Becoming

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• One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.

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  Writing, Music Is, Basic Things

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• It's the irrational things that interest me.

  Harrison Birtwistle

  Irrational, Interest

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• My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.

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  Theatre, Pieces, Opera

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• 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.

  Harrison Birtwistle

  Ideas, Layers, Things Change

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• 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.

  Harrison Birtwistle

  Attitude, Alaska, Looks

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• I'm not an architectural composer.

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  Compositor

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• I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.

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• The piece that had a large influence on me was Turangalila.

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  Pieces, Influence

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

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  Names, Giving, Influence

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• This sounds horribly pretentious, but I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it.

  Harrison Birtwistle

  Thinking, Sound, Pretentious

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• When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18.

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  Kids, Age

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• La ópera cuenta la historia con todas las contradicciones incorporadas y desde muchos ángulos diferentes.

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  Different, Stories, Opera

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• You either are or you're not.

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• 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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  Writing, Sea, Tuition

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• 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.

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  Reactions, Theory, Minimalism

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• I think there are influences that you open the door to, and influences that come under the door.

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  Thinking, Doors, Influence

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• I didn't have a record player.

  Harrison Birtwistle

  Player, Records, Record Players

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• I always write the pieces I want to write.

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  Writing, Pieces, Want

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• 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!

  Harrison Birtwistle

  Attitude, Writing, Littles

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