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I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.

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There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people.

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The virtuoso element in jazz playing, all those very fast runs in the upper extremes, simply doesn't appeal to me. That's why I don't want to make my concerto "virtuosic" in the sense of a technical show-off. I want a beautiful sound and a melodic and lyrical line. I am more interested in the way someone can play musically.

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Music history has flowed under the bridges for many years.

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I remember once, when I started writing for the alto saxophone, a saxophonist told me to think of it as being like a cross between an oboe and a viola, but louder.

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Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century.

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