Basements Quote by David Pajo

Music is a performance and needs the audience.

— Michael Tippett

Performances are so defined by their venues - it'd be nice for the music to dictate more of the reaction.

— Anna Meredith

It really surprises me that people in this day and age still write such busy music and fill up every space with layer upon…

— James Blake

There was a lot more music than the size of the place would indicate.

— Bruce Cockburn

Music is about the performance.

— Vanessa Mae

We've always been quite clear about how we want the songs to sound. If we can imagine the song being played at a party,…

— Angus Young

When I play that music live nowadays, there's a lot of things I feel I'd like to do - even things I don't think…

— DJ Shadow

We wanted to incorporate lights and the like to really accentuate the music. We play mostly small venues, so we don't use it overboard…

— Zacky Vengeance

Most big concerts sound disgusting and awful and insultingly bad. It's like going to the cinema and been shown a scratchy film which is…

— Brian Eno

You don't make this kind of music expecting to have to do TV press and stuff like that. I don't mind doing it, but…

— Jon Hopkins

Fortunately any of the songs we've recorded can be extremely fulfilling to perform depending on the variety of circumstances that surround any given show.

— Dwight Yoakam

So now, thirty years, forty years later, I mean, I could find a whole orchestra of a thousand to put these things together in…

— Gunther Schuller