 When I dealt with set theory, I could never make it be the music that I wanted. |
| 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. |
| The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names. |
| 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. |
| My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces. |
| 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. |
| In the end it doesn't matter what you do. |
| I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism. |
