Complexity Quote by Max Richter

I didn't go to a conservatoire, and I have certain low opinions of certain aspects of the conservatory experience.

— Mark Morris

By the time I got to the Paris Conservatoire I was very good at the scales and arpeggios.

— James Galway

However, very recently I have come to an understanding that complex music is not necessarily pleasant.

— Nobuo Uematsu

Classical music, fortunately or not, unfolds in time. It's not like a picture you can stare at for 10 seconds or 10 hours. You…

— Carlo Grante

There's always been good and bad music. Many composers hide behind modern music in order to not make music.

— Pepe Romero

Thus, if a composer wants to produce music that is relevant to his contemporaries, his chief problem is not really musical, though it may…

— John Blacking

In school, I guess I was a difficult, know-it-all type of student... I was always complaining that music education was too academic.

— Bjork

... The 'cleverness' syndrome has taken the place of melody. It's like everyone has come down with this terrible disease in jazz....you are always…

— Keith Jarrett

If we look at music history closely, it is not difficult to isolate certain elements of great potency which were to nourish the art…

— George Crumb

It [piano lessons] wasn't a priority, but it was an interest and through that I became acquainted with classical music, which was a main…

— Paul Smith

I've learned a lot from the masters of orchestration, like Ravel and Stravinsky.

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

I always hankered to be a composer - I was mad about music, though I never studied seriously, and can't read a note. But…

— Conrad Aiken