When I was confronted with official tuition, the academic thing, I could see no relationship whatever between that and the music Id been writing since I was 11. – Harrison Birtwistle
The theatre only knows what its 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
Im not a music lover in the sense that I look for something to have on. Ive never had that attitude to music. – Harrison Birtwistle
My attitude to writing is like when you do wallpapering, you remember where all the little bits are that dont meet. And then your friends say: Its terrific! – Harrison Birtwistle
Meditation simply means a discipline that makes you capable of being aloof and detached from your mind. So even if the mind is sick, your consciousness is never sick. Even if your mind is going crazy, you are just witnessing it. Mind is only a machine. You are not. – Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh