Instruments Quote by Gavin Bryars Download Open image “Similarly you can make a transition from one set of instruments to another imperceptibly.” — Gavin Bryars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Instruments Transition
Anytime I switch to another instrument, I immediately turn it into another kind of drum so that I can understand it better. — Levon Helm Copy Share Image
My head is full of shifting patterns and polyrhythmic stuff; but I want to use all acoustic instruments and create this kind of tapestry… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
Sometimes when it comes to music, effects or sound engineering, it is difficult to achieve what you want within a fixed time frame. — Vijay Antony Copy Share Image
Only having one melody instrument in play at a time meant that we could improvise more in our practices. — Liv Bruce Copy Share Image
The beautiful thing about working with new instruments is that you sort of approach it with a fresh perspective. — Washed Out Copy Share Image
Having the facility to have this multitrack at home, I could try experiments with sort of all of the instruments, giving them different treatments… — Jimmy Page Copy Share Image
There is a sort of convergence starting to happen between the computer and musical instruments, but it's still quite a long way off. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
My goal is to just be able to play as many instruments as I possibly can. — Tash Sultana Copy Share Image
The reason I can play loads of instruments is because I kept giving up and trying another one. — Lapsley Copy Share Image
As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as I had… — Gavin Bryars Copy Share Image
When Philip Glass asked me if I would be interested in doing a new recording of Jesus' Blood he assumed that I would do… — Gavin Bryars Copy Share Image
I've heard though that there is a younger generation of tonal French composers who are reacting with vigour. — Gavin Bryars Copy Share Image
Like an apparently strict musical form it breaks the five minute whole into its structural parts - a descriptive preamble, the action of taking… — Gavin Bryars Copy Share Image
The project which we developed, however, was for a sound piece and I was initially curious that a sculptor should be interested in working… — Gavin Bryars Copy Share Image
The academic area of new music or modern music festivals is not something which attracts me at all. — Gavin Bryars Copy Share Image
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… — Gavin Bryars Copy Share Image
There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people. — Gavin Bryars Copy Share Image
I currently spend a lot of time thinking about orchestration and every detail of a piece. — Gavin Bryars Copy Share Image
I work very fast, keeping the ideas flowing but making sure they come out the way I intended. — Gavin Bryars Copy Share Image
Each woman is like an instrument, waiting to be learned, loved, and finely played, to have at last her own true music made. — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
The only thing I try to watch carefully is that I never lose the love for the instrument. That's also why I decided against… — Nils Frahm Copy Share Image
It's difficult for people to come to the understanding that only a small minority of the people ever really get the word about life,… — Earl Nightingale Copy Share Image
Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that. — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
Like a child exploring the attic of an old house on a rainy day, discovering a trunk full of treasure and then calling all… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
The concept of humanity is an especially useful ideological instrument of imperialist expansion, and in its ethical-humanitarian form it is a specific vehicle of… — Carl Schmitt Copy Share Image
Kenny G, I have to be grateful to him for proving that the instrument can be played all different kinds of ways. — Steve Lacy Copy Share Image
Mechanical instruments, potentially a vehicle of rational human purposes, are scarcely a blessing when they enable the gossip of the village idiot and the… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Local and state governments have outrun the federal government. The EPA has served notice that it will enact a rule requiring CO2 reductions by… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
From the 1990s onward, the financial sector created a vast array of instruments designed to separate investors from their money, financial derivatives of an… — John L. Casti Copy Share Image
[The Community's] crosses and trials give me confidence. But I derive my hope above all, and most especially, from our utter incapacity, for it… — Theodore Guerin Copy Share Image