Song Quotes by Tod Machover

There's many reason music exists and we are beginning to no only understand that, but measure that.

— Tod Machover

Any Beatles song is perfect. It gets to you right away.

— Tod Machover

My work on hyper instruments started with simple instruments, like the piano.

— Tod Machover

Nobody talks about music as having intrinsic meaning, how it engages the mind.

— Tod Machover

Why does every society seem to want to make music when it often seems like kind of a frill.

— Tod Machover

One of my interests in music has always been what it means, why it affects us the way it does.

— Tod Machover

There's just an incredibly rich and interesting relationship between our listening to music and the way our minds engage.

— Tod Machover

I did take composition lessons when I was in high school, so I wrote piano pieces. I wrote some chamber music. I…

— Tod Machover

A piano is a machine, but you've got ivory and there's weight behind the keys and you have this really - you…

— Tod Machover

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

I think a double bass for me would be too much effort. But the cello, you're really engaged and the sound is…

— Tod Machover

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

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

I think it's maybe because Sergeant Pepper's came out when I was about 13 or 14 and that was a pretty impressionable…

— Tod Machover

One of the big mysteries of music is, if you take music without words, it means something to us because we know…

— Tod Machover

The Beatles realized that what they were making in the studio could never be performed. And they had already given up on…

— Tod Machover

Music seems to stimulate more parts of our mind than almost every other activity. It combines more parts of our minds. It…

— Tod Machover