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It was quite an insignificant looking sheet, but no sooner did the American eagle catch sight of it, than he swooned and fell off his perch.

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Being on a musical quest was something I always enjoyed.

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I am proud to be able to claim that, from the age of nineteen, I've managed to earna living entirely as a composer.

Age, Living, Nineteen, Proud

When I came across something I liked, I wanted to find out as much as I could about it. This was as true of hearing Hoagy Carmichael for the first time as it was later when I first heard Boulez.

First Time, Firsts, Hearing, Hoagy, True

Elizabeth Lutyens was the first professional composer that I ever knew. I sent someextremely infantile pieces that I I'd written and got marvellous encouragement andinterest from her. . . she's certainly the English composer who's influenced me themost.

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I realized very early that I was never going to make by living by writing string quartets. But I wanted to write music and I didn't want to have to do anything else.

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I hated teaching composition. I was playing music I didn't particularly want to play, being on committees I didn't want to be on.

Hated, Play, Playing, Teaching, Want
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