Composer Quote by Jherek Bischoff

“I was going to say is that I come from a rock background, but also I was super interested in jazz for a long time. I was training to be a jazz musician for quite a while. I never trained to be a classical composer or player, but I did train to play jazz.” quote by Jherek Bischoff — Download Open image

“I was going to say is that I come from a rock background, but also I was super interested in jazz for a long time. I was training to be a jazz musician for quite a while. I never trained to be a classical composer or player, but I did train to play jazz.”

Jherek Bischoff

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (5 ratings)

Composer Jazz Jazz music Jazz musician Long Long time Music Musician Player Time Train Training

More by Jherek Bischoff

Usually when you're playing with other people in not such a reverberant room, you have to be quick on your feet and think about stuff really quickly. But inside the cistern, it was almost like I was at home on my computer arranging and taking time thinking about the next step, the next note. Instead, the room was my collaborator.…

Jherek Bischoff

Writing for chamber ensemble is the thing that excites me the most. So when I went down into the cistern, I didn't know that…

Jherek Bischoff

Image

Arranging is sort of the most exciting part of making music right now for me. I really enjoy the process of arranging because you're…

Jherek Bischoff

Image

I guess travelling that kind of long distance and travelling at such a slow pace, it wasn't something that I was thinking about when I was inside of the cistern, but when I started hearing the music played back to me for the first time by an ensemble, it totally brought me back, immediately, to memories of sailing. And it…

Jherek Bischoff

I can start playing ukulele and then I'll go to a note that I think will be there, but because of the tuning, it's…

Jherek Bischoff

Image

It's kind of like being a writer in the sense that you always hear other writers say, 'Well, the best way to start writing is to just start writing.' The same goes for improvisation. You want to start improvising, just start playing notes. And the more you do that, the more comfortable - or not comfortable - but I guess…

Jherek Bischoff

People always say that music is a universal language. It was very, very true. We could show up anywhere with any people speaking different…

Jherek Bischoff

Image

Of course, right away I got more interested in the far-out jazz than the traditional jazz, so I quickly was turned onto the John…

Jherek Bischoff

Image

I remember being on Hawaii when I sailed to Hawaii. It felt unsettling to be walking around there because I was thinking, "This place…

Jherek Bischoff

Image

One interesting thing - I play bass and guitar and stuff like that. I know those instruments really well. But I don't know how…

Jherek Bischoff

Image

I did one year of school and I was doing correspondence school, which was actually another happy accident. Correspondence school is basically home school,…

Jherek Bischoff

Image

The amazing thing about the cistern is that, if you're improvising in a dead room, you play your note and then you're left with…

Jherek Bischoff

Image

Explore all 14 Jherek Bischoff quotes

More Composer quotes

A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated…

Hanns Eisler

Image

Bruce Katz is a spectacular talent! He's a brilliant composer and arranger who uses uncommon and unique musical intelligence to redefine jazz and blues…

Larry Coryell

Image

Trombone virtuoso and innovative composer, Papo combines the best of jazz and Latin music to create a genre that is unique and wild. He's…

Michael Brecker

Image

“- Mom, can I tell them there that I'm Romanian? - Sure, why not tell them? - I was thinking that they wouldn't think... I'm bragging." (Dialogue with his mother before leaving for Vienna)”

George Enescu

The number of e-mails and letters that I get from choreographers, from sculptors, from composers who are being inspired by science is huge.

Brian Greene

Image

The architect is very interesting because the architect is the commander, meaning the one who commands all the workers. The architect is also the…

Santiago Calatrava

Image

If a composer could state in words what being a composer means, he would no longer need to be a composer.

Ned Rorem

Image

Seen from the point of view of the composer, the most nonsensical practice is that of casting people in musicals who are unable to sing. No one would cast a dancing part with someone who cannot dance sufficiently to come up to professional standards. The same is true of acting. But when it comes to singing, more often than not…

Ernest Gold

I think there's just been this "thing" that's developed, this way that we have of talking about our music that alienates people. And I fall into that too! I learned that in graduate school. You just talk about your music in a specific way, and that separates people from you. But some composers like that. Schoenberg liked that. He wanted…

Missy Mazzoli