Harrison Birtwistle Quotes

You either are or you're not. - Harrison Birtwistle

When I was confronted with official tuition, the academic thing, I could see no relationship whatever between that and the music I'd been writing since I was 11. - Harrison Birtwistle

When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18. - Harrison Birtwistle

When I dealt with set theory, I could never make it be the music that I wanted. - Harrison Birtwistle

This sounds horribly pretentious, but I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it. - Harrison Birtwistle

There are rhythmic ideas which sometimes only work up to a point. In writing there are moments when it just comes off the page, it's not just a collection of notes. - Harrison Birtwistle

The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names. - Harrison Birtwistle

The piece that had a large influence on me was Turangalila. - Harrison Birtwistle

The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles. - Harrison Birtwistle

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