I liked counterpoint because of the way that things went together. That was interesting because the musical elements were separable and then you could warp all of these lines and times and spaces into each other and put voices together. That was a different kind of experience from harmony and I was very affected by it, too; I was escaping the boundaries of space and time.

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I'm sure the Duquesne kids are aware of Robert Morris and I'm sure the Robert Morris kids are aware of Duquesne, ... We've had a more intense camp to get ready. Playing Duquesne is a good way to start.

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Hopefully the rally today [Wednesday] means we're breaking through some of the skepticism about accounting.

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It takes a lot of people getting sick, and going to physicians, and then it also takes the physicians diagnosing the illness and recognizing that it's water-borne, and very often all of those things don't happen.

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Not to take anything away from Duquesne, but I don't think we played very well, ... We weren't in sync and we've got a lot of work to do. We're going to have to go back to the drawing board and start all over.

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I know enough jazz harmony to do something already, but to really play something with other people that would be suave and cool.

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When composers say that music is a temporal art, I think that's true, but what is most fun in music is when you know that there are connections that are non-temporal. You can compare them with the unfolding of the piece again - you can compare the drama of the unfolding with the relationships that you remember.

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I never presumed that a technique of composition or an idea was so special that just using it would guarantee the quality of the music.

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Challenge to start something from scratch.

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