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" If you haven't heard my music before, 'Spirit Voices' is a great place to start. "
Steven Stucky
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" Americans' distrust of the conspicuously intellectual - a habit we learned, I suppose, on the frontier, but which remains a feature of the national character - has the virtue of puncturing the pretentious and exposing the fake, but it may also have impaired American listeners' patience for music that is especially complex or austere. "
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" I'm trying to do the exact thing Verdi or Mendelssohn did - open up that spiritual space where we can all be fully ourselves. "
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" To some extent, I'm mildly surprised by every new piece, by the precise path that my interest takes. "
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" One kind of artist is always striving to annihilate the past, to make the world anew in each new work, and so to triumph over the dead weight of routine. I am the other kind... who only sees his way forward by standing on the shoulders of those who have already cleared the path ahead. "
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" My own personal melting pot has no room for Hendrix or heavy metal, filled as it is with European ancestors such as Debussy, Sibelius, Bartok, Lutoslawski, and Ligeti. "
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" I think a great piece, whenever it was written, gets under our skin, makes us feel something. That's what Beethoven was trying to do. "
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