“some very nice things are prickly, I’ve heard”

“Some of us who write music today, we don’t write very far out music, we don’t write very populist music, we write what we believe in and to communicate a vision. … Our music is to be used, we write it for us and sometimes it’s a little prickly but some very nice things are prickly, I’ve heard.”

Oliver Knussen

From “Oliver Knussen speaks out for new music” via The Rambler 

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