"Silences between movements are employed only in order to bring the opposing duo to the fore."

-- Elliott Carter

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“I'm not a cinematic cinematic person. I go to the movies like I did back when I was a kid. I go to the movies and I sit down. If the music works, hmm. If it doesn't work, hmm. The whole concept of the thing, not as one piece here or there. For me, music is a large part.”

Source : Interview with Paul D. Miller, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“When we started making electronic music I imagined that the reaction we got from the rock musicians must have been similar to the one the beat groups got from people like my dad.”

Source : "Horn of plenty". Interview with Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. November 5, 2004.
“America has shown its evil intentions, and the proud Iraqi people cannot accept it. They must defend their rights by any means they see fit.”

Source : "Wanted Iraqi cleric 'willing to die'". www.theguardian.com. April 6, 2004.
“A brave man, whose only fault was being a woman.”
“But sometimes, that depth of needâ€”to save, to protectâ€”can become a blinding fervor, one that destroys the very thing it thinks to safeguard.”
“I'm a person with virtually no feelings.”
“Committing yourself is a way of finding out who you are. A man finds his identity by identifying. A man's identity is not best thought of as the way in which he is separated from his fellows but the way in which he is united with them.”
“Peace is the first thing the angels sang.”

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