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(9 votes)   However, yes, especially as one gets older, you know, you really hope that your music will become more generally available, even though some of the performances might be riddled with faults.

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(13 votes)   Well, the very best operas are the ones written by the very best composers.

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(11 votes)   If you look at the timing of many of the Greek dramas from the theatrical point of view, it's all off, and I think the reason for that is that music played a very important part.

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(11 votes)   Not that one shouldn't use all of those technical advantage, but the essence of what's being communicated shouldn't be technology.

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(9 votes)   I really write for people.

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(9 votes)   I've just simply used what I've used because of the great, great expressive potential of it.

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(8 votes)   I mean, the 7th, the flat 7th which approaches the 7th harmonic, very often comes off sounding like the cry of a frightened child.

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(8 votes)   I think I was first to do live performances on a modern electronic sound synthesizer.

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(8 votes)   I think one of the greatest enemies in the use of technology, however, is the idea that if you use the technology you have to throw other things out of the window.

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(8 votes)   I want the audience to be so involved in the sweep of the music.

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(8 votes)   I'm thinking in terms of a point of departure, a field of action for performers to express an expressive need of mine which hopefully the context of music would convey.

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(8 votes)   We need it to capture the energy of contemporary life.

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(7 votes)   But nevertheless, it's music ultimately that matters in opera, and opera is a piece of music reaching out as a vision in sound reaching out to the world.

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(7 votes)   In other words, I think that if an audience listens to something as an experience of how in tune it is or something of that kind, that the whole point is somehow being missed, and the music has failed.

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(6 votes)   I wait until something is really in the shape that I want to make it as a permanent record, because I think of recording as a permanent record.

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