"Music is such a problem in the time it takes."

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Harrison Birtwistle

#Problem Quotes #Music Is Quotes

“I would love to compose more fantasy music, whether it's for a film or a game. That genre has so much opportunity for harmonic experimentation, not to mention all the interesting instruments that become available when composing music for alien species and other worlds.”
“a successful politician does not have convictions; he has emotions.”
“When I was at McGill medical school, there was a writer, Ted Rosenthal, who used to write for the New York Times - tragically he died of leukemia at a very young age. He talked about how we can have an opportunity to live a lifetime in a moment, in a day, in a month, in a year - when you're confronted with the finite reality of your own existence, all these moments become lifetimes.”

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“What is learned in high school, or for that matter anywhere at all, depends far less on what is taught than on what one actually experiences in the place.”

Source : Edgar Z. Friedenberg (1965). “Coming of Age in America”
“He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. . . . He must not be afraid to return again and again to the same matter; to scatter it as one scatters earth, to turn it over as one turns over soil. For the matter itself is only a deposit, a stratum, which yields only to the most meticulous examination what constitutes the real treasure hidden within the earth: the images, severed from all earlier associations, that stand -like precious fragments or torsos in a collector's gallery -in the prosaic rooms of our later understanding.”

Source : "Reflections: essays, aphorisms, autobiographical writings".
“Right now, it's hard to imagine that it is raining anywhere in the world.”
“The challenge of manners is not so much to be nice to someone whose favor and/or person you covet (although more people need to be reminded of that necessity than one would suppose) as to be exposed to the bad manners of others without imitating them.”
“The Democrats' plan for 2006? Take the House and Senate and impeach the president. With our nation at war, is this the kind of Congress you want?”

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