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Howard Goodall

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2008-05-25

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2008-05-25

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1. “Well, I was in a choir school when I was eight years old, and the other choristers were very musical, and therefore I suppose it wasn't that unusual one or two of my friends also composed. It was only when I went to secondary school and was with lots of people who weren't particularly musical that it became obvious to me that what I'd been having as an experience as a boy chorister wasn't normal.”

   2008-05-25 · Desert Island Discs · Howard Goodall · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

2. “Yes, it's a bit like a CD playing of music you've never heard before, all the time, and I suppose that's why I became a composer, because I suppose I would have started to happen when I was a boy eight or nine or ten years old, I just started to hear music all the time, and then would start to write it down to the”

   2008-05-25 · Desert Island Discs · Howard Goodall · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source