Generation Quote by Gavin Bryars

Everyone is a virtuoso on his own instrument, but together they add up to an intolerable cacophony.

— Thomas Bernhard

Still, American composers working in France have had a pretty hard time.

— Gavin Bryars

Too many composers become involved in intellectual speculation which seems to matter more to them than the sound that comes out of all this…

— Louise Talma

I think the French have come to grips with their past, and that was true up until about - until the '70s. And then…

— Robert O. Paxton

Who can forget the music of the French composer Germaine Tailleferre? These are just a few composers whose aesthetic ideals we all share, and…

— Barbara Harbach

Modern European composers...have very largely received their stimulus, their rhythms and impulses from Machine Age America. They have a much older tradition of musical…

— George Gershwin

I think every classically trained film composer feels to some extent, maybe on some level, that they took the low road, that they could…

— James Newton Howard

The zenith of virtuosity, a violinist like Jascha Heifetz, the supernatural in a pianist like Vladimir Horowitz, these are performers who were so idiosyncratic…

— David Finckel

When I was first introduced to the music of Jacques Brel, I was totally floored. I had never heard anything as intelligent or sexy…

— Amanda McBroom

“Philippe also brought along musicians - mainly trumpeters and drummers - to scare the enemy. Even then, French music was known to terrify the…

— Stephen Clarke

I just started studying opera - very, very much as hobby - and for some reason I've been gravitating toward French composers, like a…

— Caroline Polachek

I think we have a lot in common with classical composers of the 19th century, although I'm not claiming to have their intelligence. They…

— Matt Bellamy