Attitude Quote by John Tilbury

It's very interesting to read why Cornelius Cardew became disenchanted with academic avant-garde music. He wanted to reach as many people as possible and…

— Alasdair MacLean

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

Every composer understands and uses the system of notation differently, and that's what makes you appreciate the trouble they go through in doing so.

— Marc-Andre Hamelin

Experimental music scores are enigmatic, opaque, demanding, irritating, humorous, childlike; the best, like Cardew's Treatise, are also inspiring, giving rise, on occasion, to a…

— John Tilbury

Composers aren't daring enough. They're afraid of that sacred idol called 'common sense', which is the most dreadful thing I know - after all,…

— Claude Debussy

The trouble with the performance poets is that they don't seem to have read anything. So there is not a real sense of the…

— Peter Davison

There was a technique to making a musical. It took a long time for the studios to learn it, and it was very complicated.

— Cyd Charisse

“These 'Instructions' were held in high esteem as text-books and writing exercises in schools—a circumstance to which we owe the preservation of many of…

— Ptahhotep

The artist must be blind to distinction between 'recognized' or 'unrecognized' conventions of form, deaf to the transitory teaching and demands of his particular…

— Wassily Kandinsky

It's the vision of the composer that we have to determine, and not the absolute mathematical adherence of the score. In my experience, there…

— Marc-Andre Hamelin

“none of my art is based on how others think i should have done it.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

Every performer should learn a little bit of everything.

— Debbie Reynolds