You can only learn orchestration if you have the possibility of using an orchestra. — Krzysztof Penderecki Education Copy Share Image
Poles have a mistrust of the West and an even deeper mistrust of the East. — Krzysztof Penderecki East Copy Share Image
I have found my perfect place on earth in Poland, in Luslawice, near Krakow. — Krzysztof Penderecki Earth Copy Share Image
Usually composers need a reason to write. I need a deadline. — Krzysztof Penderecki Composers Copy Share Image
I studied violin since I was a boy, and my dream was to be a violinist and to play. — Krzysztof Penderecki Boy Copy Share Image
I think the best publicity I can get for my music is to conduct it. — Krzysztof Penderecki Best Copy Share Image
Every day I write. I am not waiting for a great idea from heaven. — Krzysztof Penderecki Day Copy Share Image
I'm not a minimalist, not at all. I feel much better, safer even, having a large piece. — Krzysztof Penderecki Better Copy Share Image
The communists saw what we did in the arts as the only product of socialism that was known in the West, so… — Krzysztof Penderecki Art Copy Share Image
Writing music is something very natural... this is the way to communicate with other people. — Krzysztof Penderecki Communicate Copy Share Image
I have always had an audience for my music, even in the very avant garde, crazy times. — Krzysztof Penderecki Always Copy Share Image
I used to do most of my composing at a little table in a cafe. Composing for 52 instruments, I had to… — Krzysztof Penderecki Cafe Copy Share Image
For years, my favorite composers had been Monteverdi and Bach. Then I began to rediscover the 19th century, see it from another… — Krzysztof Penderecki 19th century Copy Share Image
At school, I wrote in the style of the Dutch composers. After I graduated, a new style set in. — Krzysztof Penderecki Composers Copy Share Image
In my own works I am an obsessionist. Though I write humorous music too, much of it has been obsessed by death… — Krzysztof Penderecki Death Copy Share Image
Melody was banned from music by the composers of the avant-garde. I was unique among them in always using and writing melody… — Krzysztof Penderecki I think Copy Share Image
My family was very open. My grandfather was German and a Protestant. My father, a lawyer, was Greek-Catholic and played the violin.… — Krzysztof Penderecki Church Copy Share Image
The isolation of Eastern Europe actually helped me to be so original. I couldn't travel so much, I had to find my… — Krzysztof Penderecki Eastern europe Copy Share Image
There was this kind of dictatorship of the Darmstadt school, composers like Boulez and Stockhausen, who were very strict and orthodox. They… — Krzysztof Penderecki Dictatorship Copy Share Image
So many new things have been discovered in the 20th century that now, at the end of the century, we need some… — Krzysztof Penderecki 20th century Copy Share Image
I started to write religious music at a time when it was absolutely impossible. The first religious work I wrote was the… — Krzysztof Penderecki Impossible Copy Share Image
I was growing up in a communist time, especially, and the other music, the western music, was banned, so on radio half… — Krzysztof Penderecki Chopin Copy Share Image
I think in work like 'Passion According to St Luke,' which I wrote when the Church was being persecuted by the Communist… — Krzysztof Penderecki Church Copy Share Image
As a young man I couldn't travel, nobody could travel, they wouldn't give us a passport. For many years I was trying… — Krzysztof Penderecki Competition Copy Share Image
Poland is my home, my roots are here. There is nowhere I would rather live. — Krzysztof Penderecki Home Copy Share Image
I have written many works to accompany Old Church Slavonic texts. — Krzysztof Penderecki Church Copy Share Image
