Harrison Birtwistle
Quotes by Harrison Birtwistle
My attitude to writing is like when you do wallpapering, you remember where all the little bits are that don't meet. And then your friends say: It's terrific!
— Harrison Birtwistle
The theatre only knows what it's doing next week, not like the opera, where they say: What are we going to do in five years' time? A completely different attitude.
— Harrison Birtwistle
I'm not a music lover in the sense that I look for something to have on. I've never had that attitude to music.
— Harrison Birtwistle
When I was confronted with official tuition, the academic thing, I could see no relationship whatever between that and the music I'd been writing since I was 11.
— Harrison Birtwistle