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I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references.

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It seems to me opera is just as relevant as an expressive art as anything else.

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I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable.

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Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them.

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If an American audience is given a serious musical theater piece that is well produced, dramatically gripping and wonderfully acted, they'll respond to it.

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What is American music? The most satisfying answer I've come across is that it was a kind of natural comfort with the vernacular which is diverse and regional; it's not one particular set of sounds.

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