Ideas Quote by Harrison Birtwistle Download Open image “My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter.” — Harrison Birtwistle ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ideas Matter Musical Subject matter
I've done a lot of operas. I've probably done more different kind of operas than anybody. — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
Growing up, for years and years I had no idea what the plots of operas were, and that's part of what fascinated me -… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
Opera is the original marriage of words and music, and there's a theatre element, a dramatic element. It's right up my alley. — Shane Koyczan Copy Share Image
It's important that we have the traditional operas and the repertory, but we should also have something new. — Robert Wilson Copy Share Image
I don't know what draws these other composers to opera, but for me, it's just this incredibly rich medium for storytelling. And no matter… — Stephen Schwartz Copy Share Image
People perceive opera and classical as elitist - I disagree. I've always tried to mix the two, make it more accessible. — Katherine Jenkins Copy Share Image
Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out. — Gian Carlo Menotti Copy Share Image
I don't have ideas so much as there are things which constantly evolve... there are various threads or layers, if you like, which change. — Harrison Birtwistle Copy Share Image
The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names. — Harrison Birtwistle Copy Share Image
Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out… — Harrison Birtwistle Copy Share Image
I think there are influences that you open the door to, and influences that come under the door. — Harrison Birtwistle Copy Share Image
The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles. — Harrison Birtwistle Copy Share Image
I'm not a music lover in the sense that I look for something to have on. I've never had that attitude to music. — Harrison Birtwistle Copy Share Image
I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism. — Harrison Birtwistle Copy Share Image
There are rhythmic ideas which sometimes only work up to a point. In writing there are moments when it just comes off the page,… — Harrison Birtwistle Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Companies with cultures that celebrate diverse opinions and encourage the exchange of ideas have an advantage when solving difficult problems. A company that doesn't… — Doug McMillon Copy Share Image
You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
I know for my wife and I, we always loved the idea of being young parents. It is an incredibly inspiring and challenging job… — Taylor Hanson Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I've always been fascinated by the idea that there's no such thing as evil; it's all in your point of view. To one group… — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
It revealed a cruelty that really made one wonder if the universe was such a good idea after all. — Jeff Lindsay Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's just enough for me to have the idea. I don't need to see it through to the end. When it actually happens,… — Amy Sedaris Copy Share Image
Love is like that, fragile and light. No wonder it rests upon our hearts in intangible moments, bids us follow fleeting thoughts and ideas… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But I already saw no great difference between the psyche and spirituality. To amass knowledge without becoming wise is not my idea of progress… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
