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I just have to take my chances like any other composer.

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.

I think a composer is always interested in his last work.

In my next lifetime, I want to come back as a composer.

Still, American composers working in France have had a pretty hard time.

To search for a pianist, it is very difficult; sometimes you find one.

Musicians are always eclectic. Musicians are always curious and hungry for new things.

There's a lot of good musicians who are unheard of. Get it down before they pass away.

All great composers of the past spent most of their time studying. Feeling alone won't do the job. A man also needs technique.

So many of the sounds that contemporary composers were trying to create were to be found in the traditional musics of the world. That was encouraging but also little daunting to think that you had to work so hard to be new and yet it was old.