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Harrison Birtwistle
Harrison Birtwistle
British Composer
Born: Jul 15, 1934
Me Music Think Time Writing You
Related authors: Andrew Lloyd Webber Brian Ferneyhough Edward Elgar John Barry Michael Nyman Richard Baker Stephen Hough William Gilbert
You either are or you're not. Harrison Birtwistle
You Either
My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter. Harrison Birtwistle
Matter Musical Musical Ideas About Rather Come Ideas Operas Subject Subject Matter Than
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
Music Relationship Writing Whatever See Could Between Since Academic Been Official Tuition Confronted Thing
When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18. Harrison Birtwistle
Music Age Kid Until Wrote
This sounds horribly pretentious, but I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it. Harrison Birtwistle
Music Pretentious Think Horribly Invented Could Like Sounds Existed
The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names. Harrison Birtwistle
You Worth Will Composer About Give Names Same Any Influence Anything Thing
The piece that had a large influence on me was Turangalila. Harrison Birtwistle
Me Had Piece Influence Large
The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles. Harrison Birtwistle
Tells Angles Opera Contradictions Different Different Angles Story Many
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
Music Me People Writing Say People Say More Like Know Becoming Maybe English
One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things. Harrison Birtwistle
Music Writing One Thing Tried Archetypal Take Very Thing Basic Things Basic Things
Music is such a problem in the time it takes. Harrison Birtwistle
Music Time Problem Takes
It's the irrational things that interest me. Harrison Birtwistle
Me Irrational Interest Things
In the end it doesn't matter what you do. Harrison Birtwistle
You Matter End In The End
I'm not an architectural composer. Harrison Birtwistle
Composer Architectural
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 Music Sense Lover Music Lover Something Never Had Look
I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism. Harrison Birtwistle
Music Gone Radical Painting Think Way Severe Something Rather Through Period Cubism Very Did
I didn't have a record player. Harrison Birtwistle
Record Record Player Player
I always write the pieces I want to write. Harrison Birtwistle
Write Pieces Always Want

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