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

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.

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.

- 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

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

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

- Harrison Birtwistle

When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18.

When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18.

- 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

Music is such a problem in the time it takes.

Music is such a problem in the time it takes.

- 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

I'm not a music lover in the sense that I look for something to have on. I've never had that attitude to music.

I'm not a music lover in the sense that I look for something to have on. I've never had that attitude to music.

- Harrison Birtwistle

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