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Music Quotes by 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 I don't want…
- There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people.
- 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.
- Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century.
- The academic area of new music or modern music festivals is not something which attracts me at all.
- Somehow in the 20th Century an idea has developed that music is an activity or skill which is not comprehensible to the man in the…
- As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as I had taught…
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