People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English music, but that English music is becoming more like me.
From Harrison Birtwistle
One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.
My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter.
My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.
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!
Music is such a problem in the time it takes.
Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it.
It's the irrational things that interest me.
In the end it doesn't matter what you do.
I'm not an architectural composer.
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