Author: Harrison Birtwistle

Quotes

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.

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

Music is such a problem in the time it takes.

Music is such a problem in the time it takes.

- 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.

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.

- Harrison Birtwistle

I don't have ideas so much as there are things which constantly evolve... there are various threads or layers, if you like, which change.

I don't have ideas so much as there are things which constantly evolve... there are various threads or layers, if you like, which change.

- Harrison Birtwistle

The theatre only knows what it's doing next week, not like the opera, where they say: What are we going to do in five years' time? A completely different attitude.

The theatre only knows what it's doing next week, not like the opera, where they say: What are we going to do in five years' time? A completely different attitude.

- Harrison Birtwistle

This sounds horribly pretentious, but I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it.

This sounds horribly pretentious, but I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it.

- Harrison Birtwistle

I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.

I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.

- Harrison Birtwistle

I don't think there is much American music.

I don't think there is much American music.

- Harrison Birtwistle

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

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

- Harrison Birtwistle

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