Nobody talks about music as having intrinsic meaning, how it engages the mind. — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
I listen to a lot of music that teenagers are listening to because I'm around them. — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
Why does every society seem to want to make music when it often seems like kind of a frill. — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
One of my interests in music has always been what it means, why it affects us the way it does. — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
I never liked opera growing up. I always liked chamber music or solo music even more than orchestral music. — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
There's many reason music exists and we are beginning to no only understand that, but measure that. — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
All the music we know that's popular is actually commonly shared music that takes things that are similar about all of us. — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
I have a big barn that I converted to my music studio, so I go there early in the morning and the… — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
You have to train your mind and your ears, but they're more like athletic skills. So, part of music you just have… — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
There were a lot of things happen in the mid-'80's that all of a sudden made it possible to do a lot… — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
I think that one of the things about music is it's supposed to be spontaneous, it's supposed to be real human beings… — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
There's just an incredibly rich and interesting relationship between our listening to music and the way our minds engage. — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
I did take composition lessons when I was in high school, so I wrote piano pieces. I wrote some chamber music. I… — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
I listen to new music by composers who are interesting to me. I listen to some; I don't know if I want… — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
The way I listen to music goes in waves depending on a lot of things. How busy I am, if I'm in… — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
Perhaps 25 to 50 years from now, I can design a piece of music, no so that it appeals to something common… — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
Music seems to stimulate more parts of our mind than almost every other activity. It combines more parts of our minds. It… — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
The basic idea of a hyper instrument is where the technology is built right into the instrument so that the instrument knows… — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
England has had a lot of really bad periods of music, but it's had several amazing periods where they've found an incredible… — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
I love silence. And one of the paradoxes about the way I live and also about my work is that definitely one… — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
I think from age 13, 14, 15, I thought, yes, this rich studio produced music is the future, but it can't be… — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
Over my career, I'd say the last 25 years; we've gone from music and computer being for 10 people in the world… — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
I'd studied piano first and switched over to cello when I was about seven. I played mostly chamber and solo classical music.… — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
Strangely, the thing I listen to 75% of the time, when I'm exercising with my headphones on is English Tudor/Elizabethan music, so… — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
I like the idea of imagining a sound and feeling a sound and then having it come out through your body, through… — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
I started thinking, my gosh, all this sophisticated software for measuring how Yo-Yo plays, and how he moves and this technique of… — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
One of the big mysteries of music is, if you take music without words, it means something to us because we know… — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
When I was done with high school, I knew that music was really important to me and I knew I didn't want… — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
it's important as a composer to sit in silence and imagine these complex musical worlds in your head, but it's also a… — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
Music seems to stimulate more parts of our mind than almost every other activity. It combines more parts of our minds. It synchronizes our… — Tod Machover Copy Share
I love the cello, I love the physical sense of an instrument that's about the size of your body that vibrates enough that even… — Tod Machover Copy Share
You have to train your mind and your ears, but they're more like athletic skills. So, part of music you just have to learn… — Tod Machover Copy Share
I went to the University of California, Santa Cruz for a year, which turned out to be a really vibrant, very intensive intellectual atmosphere… — Tod Machover Copy Share
The basic idea of a hyper instrument is where the technology is built right into the instrument so that the instrument knows how it's… — Tod Machover Copy Share
Perhaps 25 to 50 years from now, I can design a piece of music, no so that it appeals to something common in millions… — Tod Machover Copy Share
I never liked opera growing up. I always liked chamber music or solo music even more than orchestral music. — Tod Machover Copy Share
I like the idea of imagining a sound and feeling a sound and then having it come out through your body, through an instrument.… — Tod Machover Copy Share
There were a lot of things happen in the mid-'80's that all of a sudden made it possible to do a lot of very… — Tod Machover Copy Share
One of my interests in music has always been what it means, why it affects us the way it does. — Tod Machover Copy Share
The Beatles realized that what they were making in the studio could never be performed. And they had already given up on performing because… — Tod Machover Copy Share
I love Bach, I love Beethoven, I love Mozart, I love the Beatles, I love you know, Stockhausen, I love many things. But for… — Tod Machover Copy Share
My message is to forget about dichotomies. The 'Brain Opera' is an opera, even if it does not tell a story in the usual… — Tod Machover Copy Share
I almost never these days sit down with a CD or my laptop and just listen to a piece with a score. I probably… — Tod Machover Copy Share
I listen to a lot of music that teenagers are listening to because I'm around them. — Tod Machover Copy Share
