I feel very free and very happy to be a composer.

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I love a visceral sound, the kind that hits you in the belly.

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Every day we make more progress toward understanding the concert hall.

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After working with Ligeti I began to hear Brahms and Beethoven differently.

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The music I turn out these days is the kind of music I want to hear myself.

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I always had, deep down, a slight aversion toward the purely cerebral in music.

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I've learned a lot from the masters of orchestration, like Ravel and Stravinsky.

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Music has just as much to do with movement and body as it does soul and intellect.

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My music wouldn't sound the way it does if I hadn't had the experience of conducting.

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This country, and the West Coast, especially, is bad at preserving any cultural legacy.

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