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I am never interested in the individual, but in the human species and its environment.
My father did advertising photography.
My preference for clear structures is the result of my desire - perhaps illusory - to keep track of things and maintain my grip on the world.
A Beethoven symphony should be rehearsed like chamber music, only for a lot more people.
At MGM, you knew you were going to be working next year; you knew you were going to get paid. But I was too ambitious musically to settle for it. And I wanted to gamble with whatever talent I might have had.
Elliott Carter does not write the kind of music that the kids go off to school whistling.
I absolutely insist upon adequate rehearsal time - particularly for the pieces that orchestras know best. Because there, the tendency is not to take them apart - rediscover them - and you must.
I admire Elliott Carter endlessly. But I have no ambitions to emulate him.
I don't even have a cell phone. I don't know how they work.
I don't write things that are wildly abstractly atonal.
I finally wasn't interested in writing music that played while actors talked.
I found that jazz musicians, possibly more than their classical counterparts, wear long-standing friendships easily and gracefully.
I have a great many shortcomings, but writing for something on time has never bothered me.
I remain extraordinarily proud of the Vaughan Williams symphonies I recorded with the LSO, and in the 1980s and '90s, I made an almost complete cycle of orchestral works by Richard Strauss with the Vienna Philharmonic.
I run around so much that I finally reasoned that composing is the one musical endeavour which you can do anywhere, anytime.
I stuck around in Hollywood for too long. I was there a long time, and when I left, I was smart enough to realise that what I was leaving was not just the movie business. I wanted to get rid of the whole atmosphere.
I used to set myself little challenges to make the work more interesting.
I'm on very good terms with all my former wives.
I've had the healthy and sobering experience of constantly working with music that is invariably better than any performance of it can be.
It's been thrown up to me most of my life: Why don't I just concentrate on conducting or composing or my own playing or on jazz?
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Ada Louise Huxtable
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