What did Harrison Birtwistle mean by: I think there are influences that you open the door to, and influences that come under the door. - Harrison Birtwistle Copy
+ My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Harrison Birtwistle, Ideas, Musical, Opera, 0 - Harrison Birtwistle
+ One thing I’ve tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Harrison Birtwistle, Music Is, Writing, 0 - Harrison Birtwistle
+ The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Harrison Birtwistle, Different, Opera, Stories, 0 - Harrison Birtwistle
+ The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Harrison Birtwistle, Influence, 0 - Harrison Birtwistle
The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
You can’t make an architect. But you can open the doors and windows toward the light as you see it. - Frank Lloyd Wright Architect · USA
Yes, influences are enriching, and they can be found in every work of art, even the most original. - Lukas Foss Composer · Germany
I understood immediately that to get success I had to make for the front door, not for the back one. - Jean Gabin
The Painter who seeks popularity in Art closes the door upon his own genius. - Washington Allston Painter · USA
For an instant God opens his door and His orchestra plays the Fifth Symphony. - Jean Sibelius Composer · Finland
Time-wasting activities are the dessert. Oftentimes discoveries are made through the back door. - Jean Wilson Author
Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world. - Jeanette Winterson Author · England
