Song Quotes by Gavin Bryars

As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as I had…

— Gavin Bryars

When Philip Glass asked me if I would be interested in doing a new recording of Jesus' Blood he assumed that I would do…

— Gavin Bryars

I've heard though that there is a younger generation of tonal French composers who are reacting with vigour.

— Gavin Bryars

Like an apparently strict musical form it breaks the five minute whole into its structural parts - a descriptive preamble, the action of taking…

— Gavin Bryars

Music history has flowed under the bridges for many years.

— Gavin Bryars

Similarly you can make a transition from one set of instruments to another imperceptibly.

— Gavin Bryars

The project which we developed, however, was for a sound piece and I was initially curious that a sculptor should be interested in working…

— Gavin Bryars

The academic area of new music or modern music festivals is not something which attracts me at all.

— Gavin Bryars

The virtuoso element in jazz playing, all those very fast runs in the upper extremes, simply doesn't appeal to me. That's why I don't…

— Gavin Bryars

There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people.

— Gavin Bryars

I currently spend a lot of time thinking about orchestration and every detail of a piece.

— Gavin Bryars

I work very fast, keeping the ideas flowing but making sure they come out the way I intended.

— Gavin Bryars

Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century.

— Gavin Bryars

I have friends who have a CD mastering plant in Hollywood and they are very sceptical about European record labels' understanding of digital technology.

— Gavin Bryars

Craft is part of the creative process.

— Gavin Bryars