Bathroom Quote by Nico Muhly

For me the best kind of film music is liturgical music. Liturgical music is essentially a million scores for the same film.

— Nico Muhly

Riding a horse is a relationship with a foreign creature, and with musicians it's a similar thing: "OK, I'm going to put something on…

— Nico Muhly

Every couple weeks I'll listen to Sibelius's Seventh Symphony, just to check in, to see how it's doing. It's doing OK.

— Nico Muhly

Because I had been in conservatory for so long, I was jealous of my friends in bands.

— Nico Muhly

As a composer you want to tell musicians two completely contradictory things. You want to say, "Play exactly what I wrote, but bring your…

— Nico Muhly

My urge, when I go to the store, is to buy everything. And it's the same when I'm composing. My first instinct is basically…

— Nico Muhly

Whenever I get asked to write orchestra music or music that is for a lot of players, I try to make it a little…

— Nico Muhly

I'm pretty clear about what I'm capable of doing.

— Nico Muhly

Even more than in the concert hall, in church there are things you can and cannot do, just out of respect. You would never…

— Nico Muhly

The score is doing a lot of work. It's like Wagner. It's like a yak carrying people.

— Nico Muhly

There's a lot of violence in Beethoven not explicitly suggested by the notes or in his markings, necessarily. There's just a way that it…

— Nico Muhly

Composition is interesting because, in a sense, you always have to let it go. Unless you're a true composer/performer, you're always sending a PDF…

— Nico Muhly