Michael Snow

When my name started popping up I was quite irritated and a little bit in shock.

— Michael Snow

If you think too much in the music you are too late.

— Michael Snow

I do a lot of challenges I run marathons and stuff like that and I like to challenge myself.

— Michael Snow

The idea that recording itself is an instrument.

— Michael Snow

When you narrow down your range and are looking through just that narrow aperture of the lens, the intensity of what you…

— Michael Snow

I don't know what is happening to people but they are not as tough as they used to be.

— Michael Snow

I know there is also the influence of television and being able to zap away so it is a weightier decision to…

— Michael Snow

The things that can go wrong are particular to mediums and they make for qualities that really are of the medium.

— Michael Snow

I really want to make physical things so that the experience is a real experience and not just conceptual.

— Michael Snow

The piano is a bit of a monster because it is this center of Western music and so much has been done…

— Michael Snow

Some of my films have caused riots, fights, and all kinds of things.

— Michael Snow

I am a little bit of a foul mouth and I just like to give it back to people.

— Michael Snow

It is understandable that people cannot be knowledgeable about all the different mediums. Sometimes it is funny.

— Michael Snow

I don't watch a lot of reality TV.

— Michael Snow

Speed is a way to escape consciousness and just act.

— Michael Snow

There is really not that much improvisation in my films. There is an acceptance of a chance.

— Michael Snow

I try to make each film a different film.

— Michael Snow

We've been able to record the music of cultures that did not have recording, and thus preserve it. But there is also…

— Michael Snow

Say you are doing a portrait and the face is perfectly done, but the rest of it is done in brushstrokes. That…

— Michael Snow

Sometimes you talk to people who really don't know anything about your work, and what can you say?

— Michael Snow

Within the context of Western music, jazz has always contained certain radical or revolutionary aspects. These are: improvisation, collective composition and individuality…

— Michael Snow

To extend the depth of what has been called 'art' into photography requires... making available to the spectator the amazing transformations the…

— Michael Snow

Socially in my alliances I wanted to just have a strong alliance and making decisions but not putting it out there but…

— Michael Snow

People's vocabulary has expanded.

— Michael Snow

I do consider the individual things individual, in a way because that is what I do I guess, try to find out…

— Michael Snow