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• The virtuoso element in jazz playing, all those very fast runs in the upper extremes, simply doesn't appeal to me. That's why…
• There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people.
• Like an apparently strict musical form it breaks the five minute whole into its structural parts - a descriptive preamble, the action…
• I have friends who have a CD mastering plant in Hollywood and they are very sceptical about European record labels' understanding of…
• Similarly you can make a transition from one set of instruments to another imperceptibly.
• One thing I'm doing on the new Titanic recording is actually bringing in different acoustic spaces.
• Craft is part of the creative process.
• I currently spend a lot of time thinking about orchestration and every detail of a piece.
• I am writing something which I find satisfying and which I am prepared to put my name to as a composer.
• It makes sense to invest in new work. It's almost like having a research department in a scientific laboratory. You have to…
• I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
• I work very fast, keeping the ideas flowing but making sure they come out the way I intended.

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