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— Harrison Birtwistle"Composing's not voluntary, you know. There's no choice, you're not free. You're landed with an idea and you have responsibility to that idea."
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All these tales of people sitting down and composing symphonies just as though they were writing a letter are very much exaggerated; at least, it isn't that way in my work.
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You haven't time to think about the composition. In working directly from nature, the painter ends up by simply aiming at an effect, and not composing the picture at all; and he soon becomes monotonous.
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