France Quote by Gavin Bryars Download Open image “Still, American composers working in France have had a pretty hard time.” — Gavin Bryars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare France Hard Hard time Time
The problem with composers is that they are the most unrequired job in America. — Gail Zappa Copy Share Image
I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles. — Gavin Bryars Copy Share Image
I guess, for better or for worse, I am an American composer, and I've had a wonderful life being exactly that. — Samuel Barber Copy Share Image
The French hold onto their traditions. I was always so alienated in America. My work was this constant reaction to that. — Robert Crumb Copy Share Image
Well, American composers are the best composers. At this time in the world, we are where the energy is. We are the most diverse,… — David Del Tredici Copy Share Image
America can well expect to develop a goodly amount of composers for she has a goodly number of people. — John Philip Sousa Copy Share Image
English urban artists were very used to making secondhand American music, and I thought that was boring. — Labrinth Copy Share Image
But it can be tough for new composers as directors tend to block you out. — M. Jayachandran Copy Share Image
Our job as composers becomes easy when directors have a good knowledge of music and know exactly what they want. — Arjun Janya Copy Share Image
American musicians are very giving - they have the highest standard in the world - but they are also very demanding in their conditions. — Zubin Mehta 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
Similarly you can make a transition from one set of instruments to another imperceptibly. — 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
I did not know that the planning for biological and chemical warfare was so widespread in England, and even in France before France fell.… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
The talk shows in the States want celebrities, not authors. In France, it is different; writers are called upon to comment on everything. They… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I… — Nathalie Sarraute Copy Share Image
In France they spend six months training policemen, then they give them a gun and put them on the streets, and I don't know that that's enough. The film's not against the police - although I think that if someone wants to be a cop there's got to be a problem. — Mathieu Kassovitz Copy Share
France has not only built a bureaucratic barrier against American culture, it has constructed a notorious intellectual case against it as well. The French… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
Creating a top team and being in a position to win the Tour de France will give me a nice feeling. But I know… — Fernando Alonso Copy Share Image
In the spring of 1984, I went to the northwest of France, to Normandy, to prepare an NBC documentary on the 40th anniversary of D-Day. — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
Luckily, he was in the process of moving to France at the time, anyway. But if he had stayed in the States, I don't… — Terry Zwigoff Copy Share Image
I was in the South of France, in Saint-Tropez and I met her when it was totally unexpected. I was very lucky because she… — Bert Stern Copy Share Image
Banning the burkini doesn't produce terrorists. But it does make the people who are already alienated, who are already disenfranchised, I many cases, economically… — Michael Leiter Copy Share Image
