"When I was confronted with official tuition, the academic thing, I could see no relationship whatever between that and the music I'd been writing since I was 11."
-Harrison Birtwistle
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"I'm not a music lover in the sense that I look for something to have on. I've never had that attitude to music.“
-Harrison Birtwistle
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"The theatre only knows what it's doing next week, not like the opera, where they say: What are we going to do in five years' time? A completely different attitude."
-Harrison Birtwistle
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"My attitude to writing is like when you do wallpapering, you remember where all the little bits are that don't meet. And then your friends say: It's terrific!"
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"How sweet it is!"
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"We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack."
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"It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week."
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