Writing a play, you start with less, so more is demanded of you. It's as if you have to not only write a symphony, but invent the instruments as well.
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A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.
To have everything written for you... It's not really creating. That's why I think symphony drummers are so limited. They 're limited to exactly what was played a hundred years before them by a thousand other drummers.
I've always wanted to make music like people write plays, so I was inspired by writers as much as musicians.
Why write for the orchestra? For one thing it's a very challenging problem.
I don't see myself necessarily having a burning desire to write a symphony.
So writing a song is much harder than doing a classical piece for me, because in a classical piece, I can just let the mood dictate what's going to happen.
Writing music is not so much inspiration as hard work.
When you write a play, you work out like a musician on a piece of music. You find all the rhythms and the melody and the harmonies and take them as they come.
In writing music, the structure of each piece is a very important factor.
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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