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The Problem With Listening, Of Course, Is That We Don't. There's Too Much Noise Going On In Our Heads, So We Never Hear Anything. The Inner Conversation Simply Never Stops. It Can Be Our Voice Or Whatever Voices We Want To Supply, But It's A Constant Racket. In The Same Way We Don't See, And In The Same Way We Don't Feel, We Don't Touch, We Don't Taste.

Finally, Ultimately, You Write Music For Yourself. I Mean, I Need A Public, I Need People To Play, I Need Everything Else. I'm Not Working In Isolation. But Finally The Man That Writes The Music Is Alone. And I Have To Respond To Those Criteria Which Are Almost Like Inner Needs Or Inner Responses.

My Biggest Problem About Writing Is Whenever I Write Piano Pieces, Because I Then Have To Learn To Play Them, Which Is Sometimes Not So Easy.

Satyagraha Is An Opera Which I Wrote For The Netherlands Opera, So It Uses An Orchestra Of Around Fifty, A Chorus Of Forty, And There Are About Seven Soloists. The Opera ... Satyagraha Means Truthful, So It Was A Name [mahatma] Gandhi Used To Describe His Civil Disobedience Movement.

If You Don't Have A Basis On Which To Make The Choice, Then You Don't Have A Style At All. You Have A Series Of Accidents.