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• Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness - I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the…
• Most people use music as a couch; they want to be pillowed on it, relaxed and consoled for the stress of daily…
• The inspired moment may sometimes be described as a kind of hallucinatory state of mind: one half of the personality emotes and…
• Listening to the Fifth Symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams is like staring at a cow for 45 minutes.
• If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.
• You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down…
• I adore extravagance but I abhor waste.
• I hope my recordings of my own works won't inhibit other people's performances. The brutal fact is that one doesn't always get…

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