“The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will giv...” — Harrison Birtwistle Quote

The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.

I'm not an architectural composer.

This sounds horribly pretentious, but I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it.

In the end it doesn't matter what you do.

I think there are influences that you open the door to, and influences that come under the door.

Americans can pretty much sing anything, whereas foreign singers are often limited in style, language, even composer.

I'm not an intellectual composer.

I would love to do more superhero work; as a young film composer, that is one of the things you dream of.

I listen to Morricone, the famed Italian film composer, while I'm working.

If a composer is to reach his audience emotionally - and surely that's what theatre music is all about - he must reach the people through sounds they can relate to.