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• I don't believe in an annual dose of film music for the sake of it being film music. If we program film…
• The act of conducting in itself, of waving my arms in the air and being in charge, I didn't miss. I missed…
• As we watch TV or films, there are no organic transitions, only edits. The idea of A becoming B, rather than A…
• Anyone who composes and conducts at the same time is immediately suspect, because he must be faking one or the other.
• I always had, deep down, a slight aversion toward the purely cerebral in music.
• I can't imagine how many first performances I've done, perhaps 500. Some of them have been very good, and some of course…
• I discovered that the people of the North are different and there's no way you can make a person from the North…
• I feel very free and very happy to be a composer.
• I love a visceral sound, the kind that hits you in the belly.
• I've learned a lot from the masters of orchestration, like Ravel and Stravinsky.
• I'm still disturbed if a chord isn't together, but your priorities change as you get older.
• Once you get over the first hill, there is always a new, higher one lurking, of course.

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