Harrison Birtwistle Quotes

British - Composer | July 15, 1934 -

People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English music, but that English music is becoming more like me.

Harrison Birtwistle

MusicPeopleMeWritingKnowSay

One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.

Harrison Birtwistle

MusicWritingThingsTakeOne Thing

My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter.

Harrison Birtwistle

IdeasMatterComeRatherThanAbout

My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.

Harrison Birtwistle

TheatrePiecesFormalVeryWorks

My attitude to writing is like when you do wallpapering, you remember where all the little bits are that don't meet. And then your friends say: It's terrific!

Harrison Birtwistle

AttitudeWritingFriendsRemember

Music is such a problem in the time it takes.

Harrison Birtwistle

MusicTimeProblemTakes

It's the irrational things that interest me.

Harrison Birtwistle

MeThingsInterestIrrational

In the end it doesn't matter what you do.

Harrison Birtwistle

EndYouMatterIn The End

I'm not an architectural composer.

Harrison Birtwistle

ArchitecturalComposer

I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.

Harrison Birtwistle

MusicSoonKnewWroteNotation

I think there are influences that you open the door to, and influences that come under the door.

Harrison Birtwistle

DoorThinkYouOpenInfluencesCome

I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism.

Harrison Birtwistle

MusicPaintingThinkWayGone

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