Author: Harrison Birtwistle

Quotes

I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.

I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.

- 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!

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!

- 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.

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.

- 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

I don't think there is much American music.

I don't think there is much American music.

- 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

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

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

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

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