As a composer you want to tell musicians two completely contradictory things. You want to say, "Play exactly what I wrote, but bring your own thing to it." In a lot of ways they feel like opposites, but in a… — Nico Muhly Copy Share Image
Even more than in the concert hall, in church there are things you can and cannot do, just out of respect. You would never have the sound of someone being nailed to a cross, or the sound of a child… — Nico Muhly Copy Share Image
In really fancy restaurants they never point to the bathroom, they just gesture toward the bathroom or they'll lead you to the bathroom. The… — Nico Muhly Copy Share Image
For me the best kind of film music is liturgical music. Liturgical music is essentially a million scores for the same film. — Nico Muhly Copy Share Image
Riding a horse is a relationship with a foreign creature, and with musicians it's a similar thing: "OK, I'm going to put something on… — Nico Muhly Copy Share Image
Every couple weeks I'll listen to Sibelius's Seventh Symphony, just to check in, to see how it's doing. It's doing OK. — Nico Muhly Copy Share Image
Because I had been in conservatory for so long, I was jealous of my friends in bands. — Nico Muhly Copy Share Image
As a composer you want to tell musicians two completely contradictory things. You want to say, "Play exactly what I wrote, but bring your… — Nico Muhly Copy Share Image
My urge, when I go to the store, is to buy everything. And it's the same when I'm composing. My first instinct is basically… — Nico Muhly Copy Share Image
Whenever I get asked to write orchestra music or music that is for a lot of players, I try to make it a little… — Nico Muhly Copy Share Image
Even more than in the concert hall, in church there are things you can and cannot do, just out of respect. You would never… — Nico Muhly Copy Share Image
The score is doing a lot of work. It's like Wagner. It's like a yak carrying people. — Nico Muhly Copy Share Image
There's a lot of violence in Beethoven not explicitly suggested by the notes or in his markings, necessarily. There's just a way that it… — Nico Muhly Copy Share Image
