Quotes by Harrison Birtwistle

Harrison Birtwistle

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.

Choices

Ideas

Responsibility

I always write the pieces I want to write.

Pieces

Want

Writing

I didn’t have a record player.

Player

Record Players

Records

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.

Ideas

Layers

Things Change

I don’t think there is much American music.

American Music

Thinking

Usa

I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism.

Gone

Thinking

Way

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

Doors

Influence

Thinking

I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.

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.

Alaska

Attitude

Looks

I’m not an architectural composer.

Composer

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Composer

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Gone

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Kids

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Littles

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Matter

Minimalism

Music Is

Musical

Names

Next Week

Opera

Pages

People

Pieces

Player

Pretentious

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Reactions

Record Players

Records

Responsibility

Sea

Sound

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Theatre

Theory

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Quotes by Harrison Birtwistle

Harrison Birtwistle

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.

I always write the pieces I want to write.

I didn’t have a record player.

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.

I don’t think there is much American music.

I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism.

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

I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.

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.

I’m not an architectural composer.

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