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Harrison Birtwistle
Profession : Composer
Birth : July 15, 1934
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You either are or you're not.
Harrison Birtwistle
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
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.
Harrison Birtwistle
It's the irrational things that interest me.
Harrison Birtwistle
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.
Harrison Birtwistle
When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18.
Harrison Birtwistle
When I dealt with set theory, I could never make it be the music that I wanted.
Harrison Birtwistle
This sounds horribly pretentious, but I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it.
Harrison Birtwistle
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.
Harrison Birtwistle
The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.
Harrison Birtwistle
The piece that had a large influence on me was Turangalila.
Harrison Birtwistle
The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles.
Harrison Birtwistle
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
One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.
Harrison Birtwistle
My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter.
Harrison Birtwistle
My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.
Harrison Birtwistle
Music is such a problem in the time it takes.
Harrison Birtwistle
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.
Harrison Birtwistle
In the end it doesn't matter what you do.
Harrison Birtwistle
I'm not an architectural composer.
Harrison Birtwistle
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