"Similarly you can make a transition from one……" — Gavin Bryars
"Similarly you can make a transition from one set of instruments to another imperceptibly."
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26 Quotes by Gavin Bryars
Gavin Bryars has 26 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- The virtuoso element in jazz playing, all those very fast runs in the upper extremes, simply doesn't appeal to me.…
- There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people.
- Like an apparently strict musical form it breaks the five minute whole into its structural parts - a descriptive preamble,…
- I have friends who have a CD mastering plant in Hollywood and they are very sceptical about European record labels'…
- One thing I'm doing on the new Titanic recording is actually bringing in different acoustic spaces.
- Craft is part of the creative process.
- I currently spend a lot of time thinking about orchestration and every detail of a piece.
- I am writing something which I find satisfying and which I am prepared to put my name to as a…
- It makes sense to invest in new work. It's almost like having a research department in a scientific laboratory. You…
- I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
- I work very fast, keeping the ideas flowing but making sure they come out the way I intended.
- People like Arvo Part would not have been taken seriously 20 years ago.