Writing Quotes by Harrison Birtwistle

Harrison Birtwistle

I always write the pieces I want to write.

Pieces

Want

Writing

Harrison Birtwistle

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!

Attitude

Littles

Writing

Harrison Birtwistle

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

Basic Things

Music Is

Writing

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 like me.

Becoming

People

Writing

Harrison Birtwistle

There are rhythmic ideas which sometimes only work up to a point. In writing there are moments when it just comes off the page, it’s not just a collection of notes.

Ideas

Pages

Writing

Harrison Birtwistle

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 since I was 11.

Sea

Tuition

Writing

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Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

Dermot Healy

Bob Goff

Rebecca Ferguson

William Congreve

Age

Alaska

American Music

Attitude

Basic Things

Becoming

Choices

Composer

Different

Doors

Ends

Giving

Gone

Ideas

Influence

Interest

Irrational

Kids

Layers

Littles

Looks

Matter

Minimalism

Music Is

Musical

Names

Next Week

Opera

Pages

People

Pieces

Player

Pretentious

Problem

Reactions

Record Players

Records

Responsibility

Sea

Sound

Stories

Theatre

Theory

Things Change

Thinking

Tuition

Usa

Want

Wanted

Way

Writing

Years

Writing Quotes by Harrison Birtwistle

I always write the pieces I want to write.

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!

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

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.

There are rhythmic ideas which sometimes only work up to a point. In writing there are moments when it just comes off the page, it’s not just a collection of notes.

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 since I was 11.

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Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

Dermot Healy

Bob Goff

Rebecca Ferguson

William Congreve

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