Gavin Bryars

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

— Gavin Bryars

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

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Gavin Bryars

Craft is part of the creative process.

— Gavin Bryars

I am writing something which I find satisfying and which I am prepared to put my name to as a composer.

— Gavin Bryars

People like Arvo Part would not have been taken seriously 20 years ago.

— Gavin Bryars

I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.

— Gavin Bryars

It makes sense to invest in new work. It's almost like having a research department in a scientific laboratory. You have to…

— Gavin Bryars

I remember once, when I started writing for the alto saxophone, a saxophonist told me to think of it as being like…

— Gavin Bryars

It's rather like attending a university seminar where you are talking to a few gifted specialists who deliver a paper to an…

— Gavin Bryars

What was once underground is now coming to the surface.

— Gavin Bryars

Over the years I have tried to develop something which is technically assured.

— Gavin Bryars

Somehow in the 20th Century an idea has developed that music is an activity or skill which is not comprehensible to the…

— Gavin Bryars

Still, American composers working in France have had a pretty hard time.

— Gavin Bryars