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title: "2 Wrote Music Quotes By Harrison Birtwistle"
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> [I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harrison-birtwistle/i-wrote-music-as-soon-as-i-knew-notation/)

[Harrison Birtwistle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harrison-birtwistle/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/178/harrison-birtwistle-21154_music_i-wrote-music-as-soon-as-i-knew-notation_814027.png)

> [When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harrison-birtwistle/when-i-was-a-kid-i-wrote-music-from-the-age-of-11-until-the-age-of-18/)

[Harrison Birtwistle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harrison-birtwistle/)

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## More by Harrison Birtwistle

> [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harrison-birtwistle/i-don-t-have-ideas-so-much-as-there-are-things-which-constantly/)

[Harrison Birtwistle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harrison-birtwistle/)

> [I didn't have a record player.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harrison-birtwistle/i-didn-t-have-a-record-player/)

[Harrison Birtwistle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harrison-birtwistle/)

> [The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harrison-birtwistle/the-thing-about-influence-is-that-any-composer-worth-anything-will/)

[Harrison Birtwistle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harrison-birtwistle/)

> [I always write the pieces I want to write.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harrison-birtwistle/i-always-write-the-pieces-i-want-to-write/)

[Harrison Birtwistle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harrison-birtwistle/minimalism-now-is-a-reaction-to-what-came-before-it-s-absolutely-of/)

[Harrison Birtwistle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harrison-birtwistle/)

> [I think there are influences that you open the door to, and influences that come under the door.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harrison-birtwistle/i-think-there-are-influences-that-you-open-the-door-to-and-influences/)

[Harrison Birtwistle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harrison-birtwistle/)

> [I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harrison-birtwistle/i-wrote-music-as-soon-as-i-knew-notation/)

[Harrison Birtwistle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harrison-birtwistle/)

> [The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harrison-birtwistle/the-opera-tells-the-story-with-all-the-built-in-contradictions-and/)

[Harrison Birtwistle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harrison-birtwistle/)

> [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harrison-birtwistle/i-m-not-a-music-lover-in-the-sense-that-i-look-for-something-to-have/)

[Harrison Birtwistle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harrison-birtwistle/)

> [I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harrison-birtwistle/i-think-music-has-gone-through-a-period-of-something-very-severe/)

[Harrison Birtwistle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harrison-birtwistle/)

> [The piece that had a large influence on me was Turangalila.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harrison-birtwistle/the-piece-that-had-a-large-influence-on-me-was-turangalila/)

[Harrison Birtwistle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harrison-birtwistle/there-are-rhythmic-ideas-which-sometimes-only-work-up-to-a-point-in/)

[Harrison Birtwistle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harrison-birtwistle/the-theatre-only-knows-what-it-s-doing-next-week-not-like-the-opera/)

[Harrison Birtwistle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harrison-birtwistle/)

> [This sounds horribly pretentious, but I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harrison-birtwistle/this-sounds-horribly-pretentious-but-i-like-to-think-that-if-music/)

[Harrison Birtwistle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harrison-birtwistle/when-i-was-confronted-with-official-tuition-the-academic-thing-i/)

[Harrison Birtwistle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harrison-birtwistle/)

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