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But communication is two-sided - vital and profound communication makes demands also on those who are to receive it... demands in the sense of concentration, of genuine effort to receive what is being communicated. Roger Sessions

Communication Sense Those Vital Demands Concentration Also Makes Genuine Effort Being Who Receive Profound

I felt that I had been influenced by being in the city enough and I wanted to go off by myself to see what was going on. I remember going out there and looking in the mirror and thinking I wasn't anything. Roscoe Mitchell

Myself Remember Mirror Looking Thinking Enough Out City See Had Felt Go Been Off Going Being Influenced Wanted Anything

You have to know composition to be a good improviser. Roscoe Mitchell

Good You Composition Know Improviser

I'm approaching a period in my life though where I'd like to be totally absorbed into music, doing concerts, writing something. Basically, that IS what I am doing. Roscoe Mitchell

Life Music Writing Approaching My Life Though Totally Something Absorb Like Period Concerts Am Doing Where Basically

I always try to think of a vocabulary to match different musical situations. Roscoe Mitchell

Try Think Musical Vocabulary Match Always Situations Different

What I try to impart to a musician is to really try to practice the instrument in a really sincere way. Learn as much about music as you possibly can. Learn composition. Study to try to create compositions of your own and put your own personal touch on your music. Roscoe Mitchell

You can work on music a few lifetimes. Roscoe Mitchell

Work Music You Few Lifetimes

I'm the kind of guy that if I go to a concert and hear something that knocks me out, I don't want to be left out of that. I'm going to try to get into that, and I'm running back home to practice. Roscoe Mitchell

Home Me Try Practice Back Out Kind Running Something Guy Knocks Concert Go Hear Left Get Going Want

If you're playing with a number of people, there are all sorts of textures, all kinds of possibilities you can get into. So why just play a theme together and then take solos? Roscoe Mitchell

You Together People Possibilities Solos Kinds Take Sort Textures Get Just Theme Then Why Play Playing Number

What I'm after is a composed music that will sound like improvised music when improvisors play it. You shouldn't be able to tell what parts are being improvised and what parts were written out beforehand; it should sound like the same music. Roscoe Mitchell

Music You Will Out Tell Composed Able Written Like Parts Sound Were Beforehand Same Improvised Being After Should Play

Man, I used to go around and think, 'Oh my God, what must it be like to be going down the street, and someone asks you, 'What's your name?' and the reply would be, 'John Coltrane.' I couldn't imagine what that would be like. Roscoe Mitchell

God You Man Down Think Must Would Would-Be John John Coltrane Someone Coltrane Name Like Around Go Reply Going Oh Oh My God Ask Your Used Street Imagine

I like to explore sounds. Roscoe Mitchell

Like Sounds Explore

When you can make a good, strong musical connection with people, that's always there. That's not often that that happens. Roscoe Mitchell

Good You People Strong Musical Make Always Often Happens Connection

This new art made a deep impression on me, and I began to study it ardently. Ruggero Leoncavallo

Art Me Made Ardently Study New Impression Began Deep

Having in my life been bitten by the jaws of both victory and defeat, I must rush to add that success is to failure as butter pecan ice cream is to death. Rupert Holmes

I didn't want much. I wanted much more. In fact, I wanted everything. Rupert Holmes

Everything More Fact In Fact Want Wanted Much

The truth is, I initially became a singer-songwriter while still in my teens because it was the only way to guarantee that somebody on earth would sing the songs I was writing. Since then, I've performed just about everywhere: rock clubs, concerts halls, arenas, TV. Rupert Holmes

Truth Truth Is Writing Somebody Teens Earth Way Everywhere TV Would About Only Arenas Songs Performed Since Sing Singer-Songwriter Became Because Concerts Halls Rock Still Just While Clubs Then Initially Guarantee

I think writing for a world one has invented can be infinitely more interesting than writing for the world we've all inherited. Rupert Holmes

Writing World Think Invented More Than Infinitely Interesting Inherited

A lot of my early career, I wrote story songs that had narratives, that had plots. Rupert Holmes

Plots Had Songs Wrote Narratives Lot Story Early Career

As much as the mystery element is all a lot of fun, when you do go to 'Edwin Drood,' you're going to a theatre to see a show about going to a theatre and what that relationship between actors and audiences has been for years. Rupert Holmes

Relationship You Theatre Has-Been See About Mystery Between Audiences Go Been Years Lot Going Much Show Fun Element Actor

Hollywood is a double feeling. Love and hate. With a talented film director, I cannot resist. They are such charming and intelligent people. But each time, it is very difficult to deal with other people. I have to satisfy other people. The director or the producer. Not me. I have to satisfy myself. But then I have to deliver my music. Ryuichi Sakamoto

Love Music Time Myself Me Director Hate People Feeling Difficult Other Charming Deliver Talented Deal Very Intelligent Intelligent People Love And Hate Cannot Double Hollywood Then Producer Each Film Each Time Satisfy Resist

In Japanese culture, there is a belief that God is everywhere - in mountains, trees, rocks, even in our sympathy for robots or Hello Kitty toys. Ryuichi Sakamoto

God Culture Mountains Sympathy Trees Our Everywhere Kitty Toys Robots Rocks Japanese Japanese Culture Hello Even Belief

I want to be lazier. This is the luxurious dream I have: Doing nothing all day, just watching the clouds and DVDs. Ryuichi Sakamoto

Day Clouds Nothing Luxurious All Day Dream Doing Just Want Watching

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