I think you'll find a significant number of people who decide not to enter competitions because their music just won't fit in… — Paul Lansky Competition Copy Share Image
I had been creating music on tape that was to be listened to as a recording, rather than through performance. — Paul Lansky Creating Copy Share Image
I never thought that I would write orchestra music, but in fact I did write a group of orchestra pieces. — Paul Lansky Facts Copy Share Image
I think of myself as experimenting with different ways of structuring pieces. A lot of it has to do with the computer,… — Paul Lansky Computer Copy Share Image
My perspective on the academic world is very favorable. I did certain kinds of things that I could never have done otherwise. — Paul Lansky Academic Copy Share Image
If the music has a logic of its own - as I think my music has - an open-minded listener will apprehend… — Paul Lansky Ifs Copy Share Image
It's always a thrill for me to see new versions of my pieces on YouTube. — Paul Lansky Adventure Copy Share Image
I wrote a lot of software to do various kinds of special things, and I loved the idea of composing pieces in… — Paul Lansky Composing Copy Share Image
Very often, when you're listening to a piece for the first time, you're listening through a model of other pieces that you… — Paul Lansky Certain Copy Share Image
I've been really fortunate to have Bridge Records interested in publishing my music for the past 25 years. Most of my music… — Paul Lansky Available Copy Share Image
I came up in the '60s; that was a time when there was a revolution going on in music. Stravinsky had become… — Paul Lansky Composer Copy Share Image
I was hired for a really excellent academic job early in my life; I was twenty-five when I started at Princeton and… — Paul Lansky Academic Copy Share Image
It's very interesting for me to listen to music with my wife. She's not a musician but she very often makes comments… — Paul Lansky Comment Copy Share Image
I've had a lot of fun writing percussion music. It feels quite similar to writing computer music. But I found myself in… — Paul Lansky Choreographers Copy Share Image
I was very fortunate to be at a wealthy institution. I do recognize the drawbacks and limitations of the academic world but… — Paul Lansky Able Copy Share Image
With a piece of classical music by Haydn, Mozart, or Beethoven, on first listening I'm referencing it with other pieces by them… — Paul Lansky Classical music Copy Share Image
I can't say that there's a common practice that has to do with pitch language or with the way pieces are put… — Paul Lansky Attention Copy Share Image
With repeated listenings, a piece eventually becomes its own being. I very often say to students that this is like meeting a… — Paul Lansky Communication Copy Share Image
I found myself recycling ideas and I saw that I had to invent reasons to compose a piece rather than start from… — Paul Lansky Exciting Copy Share Image
I don't think there's something that you have to 'get' with my music. It tends toward the dramatic side rather than the… — Paul Lansky Dramatic Copy Share Image
Even today, I notice that some of my pieces are explicitly tonal; there are actually tonics and dominants. And then there are… — Paul Lansky Dichotomy Copy Share Image
The experimentation that I do has a lot to do with tunes and pitches and ways that melodies are put together. — Paul Lansky Experimentation Copy Share Image
When you have performers, there's the uniqueness of live performance and what performers do in concerts. — Paul Lansky Concerts Copy Share Image
I noticed things in my computer music that were getting old, and I started to figure out that this has to do… — Paul Lansky Computer Copy Share Image
I didn't want my music to be seen as examples of an electronic culture; I just wanted them to be thought of… — Paul Lansky Culture Copy Share Image
I think of myself as an experimentalist even though much of my music sounds logical and normal, in a sense. — Paul Lansky Logical Copy Share Image
I came to what I think of as the critical problem: the aging process of a piece of music. I noticed in… — Paul Lansky Aging Copy Share Image
There are, however, composers whose music can only be heard in a chromatic sense. George Perle, for example, wrote pieces that you… — Paul Lansky Composer Copy Share Image
Sometimes I imagine that there's a binary division going on in contemporary practice that has to do with chromatic versus diatonic. I… — Paul Lansky Binary Copy Share Image
