Music is for people to hear, I can't think of anything else it could be for. Unless you believe in God, and I don't think God really would be all that interested. I'm sure when Bach wrote for the greater… — Richard Meale Copy Share Image
I use music as something from which I obtain some form of - I hate to use the word spiritual - guidance, an awareness of something more than the day-to-day or the petty. I am not reading Emanuel Kant to try to embark on a task of seeing if I can understand myself, what the aesthetic experience is. But I… — Richard Meale Copy Share
I was composing before I realised I was a composer. I mean it came more or less naturally. — Richard Meale Copy Share Image
I was always self-taught, there was no-one to study with when I was doing composition. — Richard Meale Copy Share Image
In studying music, you're dealing with a person, not just what comes to you on a piece of paper, and it's important to get hold of what it is that lies between that person as a person, and the things which they're producing on the paper. I don't know whether I see things in too complex a fashion, but often… — Richard Meale Copy Share
The one thing I never did, I was never strict in my techniques. I might have pretended in the past at times that I… — Richard Meale Copy Share Image
I was composing before I realised I was a composer. It came more or less naturally. There were a couple of old ladies lived next door to me, and I frequented their house more than I did my own, because it had all those marvellous things in that that old ladies do have. And they had a piano, and I… — Richard Meale Copy Share
There's only just so much you can do; I prefer to do only a couple of things and go to some depth in them. — Richard Meale Copy Share Image
I had great difficulties learning to play initially because I could not think rhythmically properly, although it's an even-paced rhythm, I was not phrasing… — Richard Meale Copy Share Image
Music is for people to hear, I can't think of anything else it could be for. Unless you believe in God, and I don't… — Richard Meale Copy Share Image
It never occurred to me that there was anything odd about writing my own music, and so I used to just jot down little… — Richard Meale Copy Share Image
I was not happy as a traveller, I did not feel really at home anywhere I went, even in Spain which was the most… — Richard Meale Copy Share Image
Anything that we love seems to always come out in some form or another, but once it gets into your brain, these things get… — Richard Meale Copy Share Image
