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There is something intimate about painting I cannot explain to you ? but it is so delightful just for expressing one's feelings.

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George Benjamin

It it's true that fastidiousness and attention to detail is very much in my genes - if you knew my parents, you'd see that this is something I've inherited, only doubly so.

Attention, Details, Doubly, Fastidiousness, Genes, Parent
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I get nervous before I conduct a concert, but then you just go out there and do it.

Concert, Concerts, Conduct, Nervous

The London music world isn't a particularly cohesive place. And when I'm composing, I'm not very friendly. I need isolation.

Friendly, Needs, Particularly, Place, World

When you love a teacher very much - as I did Olivier Messiaen - you do have to leave them. One of the things that separated me from Messiaen was my desire to create works with a big structure, a large symphonic sweep. His forms are wonderful, glorious mosaics, but again, I prefer narrative.

Desire, Messiaen, Mosaics, Symphonic, Teacher

When I lose direction, it becomes very hard to write. I actually get a physical pain, as if my subconscious knows better. That may sound mystical and pretentious, but it's true.

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It's not only that I want to get things right when I'm composing but that my imagination often gets lost, and then I have to wait until I come back to the path. I think there's an internal force that makes a piece logical from beginning to end; I like to tell stories in music that are unexpected but also logical.

Thinking, Imagination, Waiting, Wait, Music, Lost
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