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War destroys. War obliterates. War is ruination. And war begets more war. After thousands of years of experience proving this, and reams of literature and countless works of art exposing it, when are people going to learn?

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The French Revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Don't build on the past. There is no past.

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If you take a violin, you can make it sound 50 different ways. Not just pizzicato and played by the bow, but ponticello, and harmonics, and tremolos. If you take an oboe and play it, there's about one way you can make it sound: like an oboe.

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Jazz is not the popular culture. Jazz is in the same position in our culture as classical music. A very small minority of people really love it.

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I find respect for a mediocre British composer, as opposed to a really good American, ridiculous because they automatically respect a composer if he's from England.

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Eighty percent of my pieces gravitate towards an A, as a tonal thing, not at the beginning, but somewhere in it.

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You become a great composer when you win a Pulitzer. But I think that now it's a completely meaningless award.

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