I don't think there is much American music.
Harrison Birtwistle
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... →
This sounds horribly pretentious, but I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it.
When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18.
I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.
Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it.
Music is such a problem in the time it takes.
One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.
When I dealt with set theory, I could never make it be the music that I wanted.
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... →