An audience shouldn't listen with complacency.

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But you can't really know your audiences so well.

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What they can expect always is that they're going to be made to think.

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You don't underestimate either players or audience in any circumstances.

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I'm not actually teaching any more, but I am writing pieces for schools all the time, and for kids.

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If you don't get feedback from your performers and your audience, you're going to be working in a vacuum.

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I know what I want at least, and the older I get I think I'm better at getting it out of players and singers.

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You can't pander to your audience. You might in the short term, but ultimately you can't hoodwink them, either.

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If you aim at anything lower that is expecting your audience to be really alert and aware, then you're going to be caught out sooner or later as a composer.

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Recently I've been participating in radio and television talk programs doing broadcasts and conferences, and shooting my mouth off and really going to town.

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