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1. "I currently spend a lot of time thinking about orchestration and every detail of a piece." ~ Gavin Bryars
2. "I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles." ~ Gavin Bryars
3. "I work very fast, keeping the ideas flowing but making sure they come out the way I intended." ~ Gavin Bryars
4. "I've heard though that there is a younger generation of tonal French composers who are reacting with vigour." ~ Gavin Bryars
5. "Music history has flowed under the bridges for many years." ~ Gavin Bryars
6. "One thing I'm doing on the new Titanic recording is actually bringing in different acoustic spaces." ~ Gavin Bryars
7. "Over the years I have tried to develop something which is technically assured." ~ Gavin Bryars
8. "People like Arvo Part would not have been taken seriously 20 years ago." ~ Gavin Bryars
9. "Similarly you can make a transition from one set of instruments to another imperceptibly." ~ Gavin Bryars
10. "Still, American composers working in France have had a pretty hard time." ~ Gavin Bryars
11. "Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century." ~ Gavin Bryars
12. "As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as I had taught for a time in art colleges the idea of writing music in response to painting was not alien." ~ Gavin Bryars
13. "Like an apparently strict musical form it breaks the five minute whole into its structural parts - a descriptive preamble, the action of taking the cards, the development of the cards' manipulation and the revelation of what has been achieved." ~ Gavin Bryars
14. "The academic area of new music or modern music festivals is not something which attracts me at all." ~ Gavin Bryars
15. "There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people." ~ Gavin Bryars
16. "It's rather like attending a university seminar where you are talking to a few gifted specialists who deliver a paper to an audience of their peers. That's one way of making music." ~ Gavin Bryars
17. "Somehow in the 20th Century an idea has developed that music is an activity or skill which is not comprehensible to the man in the street. This is an arrogant assertion and not necessarily a true one." ~ Gavin Bryars
18. "The project which we developed, however, was for a sound piece and I was initially curious that a sculptor should be interested in working with a musician, especially on a project for radio." ~ Gavin Bryars
19. "I am writing something which I find satisfying and which I am prepared to put my name to as a composer." ~ Gavin Bryars

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