"I wrote music as soon as I knew notation."

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Harrison Birtwistle

“Fight global warming! Be cool.”
“To find the balance you want, this is what you must become. You must keep your feet grounded so firmly on the earth that it's like you have 4 legs instead of 2. That way, you can stay in the world. But you must stop looking at the world through your head. You must look through your heart, instead. That way, you will know God.”
“Blood is the god of war's rich livery.”
“I'd love kids. I'm obsessed with babies. Of course I've thought about baby names. A million times. I like Alfie for a little boy.”

Source : "The Voice". Interview with Jonathan Heaf, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. August 6, 2014.
“Sometimes, running away means you're headed in the exact right direction.”
“Harm no person, animal, plant or mineral.”
“Where the principle of difference [between political parties] is as substantial and as strongly pronounced as between the republicans and the monocrats of our country, I hold it as honorable to take a firm and decided part and as immoral to pursue a middle line, as between the parties of honest men and rogues, into which every country is divided.”
“The sea always offers up incredible stories of survivors' fortitude. Myths of a lot of countries have variations on that.”

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