Category: composer
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“I am not a composer of music, I am an inventor of music”
In Memory: “I have long since stopped worrying about fitting in in any way. I’m an outsider for sure. That suits me fine. Solitude is like a drug for me. I crave it.”
In Memory: “If you’re going to do good work, the work has to scare you.”
“I desire to carve… a single painful tone as intense as silence itself.”
“I live only in my notes.”
“This must be the first purpose of art… to change us.”
On Censorship: “If they cut off both hands, I will compose music anyway holding the pen in my teeth.”
“I am a slave to my themes, and submit to their demands.”
Art of Quotation 
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