Gavin Bryars Quotes
- 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 want…
- There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people.
- Like an apparently strict musical form it breaks the five minute whole into its structural parts - a descriptive preamble, the action of taking the…
- I have friends who have a CD mastering plant in Hollywood and they are very sceptical about European record labels' understanding of digital technology.
- Similarly you can make a transition from one set of instruments to another imperceptibly.
- One thing I'm doing on the new Titanic recording is actually bringing in different acoustic spaces.
- Craft is part of the creative process.
- I currently spend a lot of time thinking about orchestration and every detail of a piece.
- I am writing something which I find satisfying and which I am prepared to put my name to as a composer.
- It makes sense to invest in new work. It's almost like having a research department in a scientific laboratory. You have to try things out.…
- I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
- I work very fast, keeping the ideas flowing but making sure they come out the way I intended.
- People like Arvo Part would not have been taken seriously 20 years ago.
- It's rather like attending a university seminar where you are talking to a few gifted specialists who deliver a paper to an audience of their…
- Music history has flowed under the bridges for many years.
- I remember once, when I started writing for the alto saxophone, a saxophonist told me to think of it as being like a cross between…
- Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century.
- What was once underground is now coming to the surface.
- The academic area of new music or modern music festivals is not something which attracts me at all.
- Still, American composers working in France have had a pretty hard time.