Top 41 Birtwistle Quotes
#1. The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.
Harrison Birtwistle
#2. 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.
Harrison Birtwistle
#4. There are rhythmic ideas which sometimes only work up to a point. In writing there are moments when it just comes off the page, it's not just a collection of notes.
Harrison Birtwistle
#5. 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.
Harrison Birtwistle
#9. Because i see at the end of my rough way that i was the architect of my destiny..
Amado Nervo
#10. My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter.
Harrison Birtwistle
#11. Life rarely gives what we hope for. We simply make the best of the hand we are dealt.
Renee Sebastian
#12. 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 of it.
Harrison Birtwistle
#13. The game got these old handprints on it, but Imma be the one to pour cement on it.
Drake
#14. One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.
Harrison Birtwistle
#15. I don't think your dad is ever going to forget that the first time I met him I was holding ropes and a paddle he thought I was going to use on his daughter.
Rebecca Julia Lauren
#19. 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 since I was 11.
Harrison Birtwistle
#20. She leaned forward and put her arms around me. Sometimes it used to make me prickly when she did that, and I'd turn into a bag of knees and elbows. . .
Peter S. Beagle
#21. 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 years' time? A completely different attitude.
Harrison Birtwistle
#23. Dark times lie ahead of us and there will be a time when we must choose between what is easy and what is right.
-Albus Dumbledore
J.K. Rowling
#24. This sounds horribly pretentious, but I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it.
Harrison Birtwistle
#25. Composing's not voluntary, you know. There's no choice, you're not free. You're landed with an idea and you have responsibility to that idea.
Harrison Birtwistle
#27. If I had died right then, I would have been the happiest girl in the world.
Kirsty Moseley
#28. My attitude to writing is like when you do wallpapering, you remember where all the little bits are that don't meet. And then your friends say: It's terrific!
Harrison Birtwistle
#30. People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English music, but that English music is becoming more like me.
Harrison Birtwistle
#32. I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism.
Harrison Birtwistle
#33. I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down.
Carlos Fuentes
#34. I think there are influences that you open the door to, and influences that come under the door.
Harrison Birtwistle
#37. In 2007 I was at Facebook, and we looked at some of the social networks in Asia, and they were full of games.
Adam D'Angelo
#38. When I dealt with set theory, I could never make it be the music that I wanted.
Harrison Birtwistle
#39. In their simplicity and directness [neon signage is] a kind of urban iconography with which we can identify on many levels. - Rudi Stern
Philip Di Lemme
#40. The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles.
Harrison Birtwistle
#41. When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18.
Harrison Birtwistle
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