"I do not choose my listeners. What I mean is, I never write for my listeners. I think about my audience, but I am not writing for them. I have something to tell them, but the audience must also put a certain effort into it. But I never wrote for an audience and never will write for one, because you have to give the listener something and he has to make an effort in order to understand certain things."

Source : "Composer Henryk - Mikolaj Górecki". Interview with Bruce Duffie, www.bruceduffie.com.

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