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Steven Stucky
American Composer
Born: Nov 7, 1949
Died: Feb 14, 2016
Every Go Me Music Work You
Related authors: Eubie Blake George Crumb John Cage John Williams Leonard Bernstein Oscar Levant Stephen Sondheim Virgil Thomson
The general direction seems to be becoming fairly clear to me, but every new piece is a small adventure. Steven Stucky
Me Every Seems General Direction Small Clear Adventure New Piece Fairly Becoming
I have a tendency to postpone starting a piece until it's kicked around in my head a little bit. Steven Stucky
Kicked Bit Postpone Tendency Head Piece Until Around Little Little Bit Starting
We all need strategies for facing unknown repertory. Steven Stucky
Unknown Facing Repertory Strategies Need
To some extent, I'm mildly surprised by every new piece, by the precise path that my interest takes. Steven Stucky
Path Every Some Takes New Piece Surprised Precise Interest Extent
The only way for me to compose is intensively. To pick at it over a long period doesn't seem to work. Steven Stucky
Work Me Long Way Compose Seem Only Long Period Pick Over Period
One kind of artist is always striving to annihilate the past, to make the world anew in each new work, and so to triumph over the dead weight of routine. I am the other kind... who only sees his way forward by standing on the shoulders of those who have already cleared the path ahead. Steven Stucky
Work World Path Past Other Way Those Striving Kind Anew Triumph Only Sees Weight Cleared Annihilate Over New Dead Make Always Am His His Way Artist Shoulders Standing Who Forward Each Routine
I don't think music teaches about mundane, everyday life. It teaches us what it is to be a human being. Steven Stucky
Life Music Human Being Everyday Life Think Everyday About Human Being Us Teaches Mundane
On my mental iPod, I always have Stravinsky and Ravel. Steven Stucky
Mental Ravel Always iPod Stravinsky
Pulitzers are journalist-oriented, so the publicity machine kicks in for about two days. Then, you go back to normal. Steven Stucky
You Back Kicks Machine About Days Go Normal Then Publicity Two
If you haven't heard my music before, 'Spirit Voices' is a great place to start. Steven Stucky
Music Great You Before Spirit Great Place Voices Heard Place Start
My own personal melting pot has no room for Hendrix or heavy metal, filled as it is with European ancestors such as Debussy, Sibelius, Bartok, Lutoslawski, and Ligeti. Steven Stucky
Heavy Metal Own Ancestors Melting Melting Pot Pot My Own Metal Debussy Personal Heavy Room European Filled Hendrix
Americans' distrust of the conspicuously intellectual - a habit we learned, I suppose, on the frontier, but which remains a feature of the national character - has the virtue of puncturing the pretentious and exposing the fake, but it may also have impaired American listeners' patience for music that is especially complex or austere. Steven Stucky
Music Character Patience Pretentious National Virtue Complex Conspicuously Distrust Impaired Feature Habit Remains Suppose Also Learned Fake National Character Intellectual Austere American May Listeners Frontier Which Exposing

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