Other composers have taken this particular technique much further than I in the meantime, with the result that the Law of Diminishing Returns has begun to apply.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The law of diminishing returns is something I really believe in.
I think a composer is always interested in his last work.
If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void.
Composers are always going back to the past.
All great composers of the past spent most of their time studying. Feeling alone won't do the job. A man also needs technique.
I am certain that most composers today would consider today's music to be rich, not to say confusing, in its enormous diversity of styles, technical procedures, and systems of esthetics.
As a composer, I know that all sorts of sounds I hear are making their way into my brain and soul and later sneak into my music.
In my next lifetime, I want to come back as a composer.
I just have to take my chances like any other composer.
I am not one of the great composers. All the great have produced enormously. There is everything in their work - the best and the worst, but there is always quantity. But I have written relatively little.
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