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Harrison Birtwistle Quotes

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

Harrison Birtwistle

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: composer
Nationality: british
Birth: July 15, 1934

Topics

Music Never Theory Dealt Make Set

I live in Manhattan but travel all around the world; I moved to Paris when I was 16; I lived in London twice. It's kind of like, if I want to move somewhere, I don't have anything holding me back. I don't have children. If I wanna live in a certain place, I'll go. But I've lived everywhere, and I prefer New York to everything.

Live Children Travel New York World

I got the dragon on my leg when I was still living with my dad. He's not a fan of tattoos, so I had to get it behind his back; he kind of freaked out when he saw it.

Back Kind Living Tattoos Dragon Out

I didn't follow anybody's advice, really.

Advice Follow Anybody Really

Sometimes we see things as being black or white. Perhaps you have two categories of coworkers in your mind - the good ones and the bad ones. Or, maybe you look at each project as either a success or a failure. Recognize the shades of gray, rather than putting things in terms of all good or all bad.

Success Failure Good Mind Black You

When I was 11, I went to space camp at the Space Center in Texas, near where I grew up. There, I met video-game-industry pioneer Richard Garriott, better known to gamers everywhere as 'Ultima' creator Lord British.

Steve Jurvetson

Space Texas Better Up Lord Gamers

Pretending that the fashion industry isn't in part based on leather would be quite stupid of me, but at the same time, there is another way of doing things - even outside of leather. I don't use PVC either, for example, because it is harmful.

Stella McCartney

Time Me Stupid Fashion Doing Way

My mother says I was two-and-a-half when I started playing. My father was a minister, and when he went to church in the morning, she would put on Fats Waller, Billie Holiday, Nat King Cole and Cole Porter records. I'd crawl up on the piano stool, sit on a phone book and play.

Father Mother Morning King Book She

Anyway, so what he did was, he spread sheets for 100 yards and underneath them he'd put things so there were bumps and different levels and on top he'd put little bushes and if you didn't look to close, it looked like snow!

Snow You Look Top Little Spread

This morning when I put on my underwear I could hear the fruit-of-the-loom guys laughing at me.

Rodney Dangerfield

Morning Me Underwear Laughing Hear

Biology - DNA - is technology. It is coding. It is physical coding, but still code.

Ryan Bethencourt

Technology Biology DNA Still Code

Boxing is a really difficult sport! So I don't want to tell you I wouldn't try it, but I guess everybody that does know about it, my friends, they tell me how difficult it is, and I'm like, 'Eh.'

Me Friends You Know Want Try

I've been blessed because there are a lot of great singers out there that didn't make it past their first album.

Great Past Blessed First Out Been

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