Abstract Quote by Wynton Marsalis

I allow my creativity to push me in directions that are simply interesting to me and I don’t worry about the likeness of the…

— Mark Applebaum

When I'm writing, those ideas are seldom inspired by music itself. I won't often listen to an artist and come up with an idea.

— St. Lucia

For me, music is pure abstraction.

— Krzysztof Penderecki

One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.

— Harrison Birtwistle

I never learned to verbalize an abstract musical concept. No thank you. The whole point of being a serious musician is to avoid verbalization…

— Virgil Thomson

I express myself using my classical skills to write more complex forms of popular music.

— Ludovico Einaudi

That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.

— Sarah Caldwell

I like the fact that music is more abstract.

— Bryan Ferry

I try to take the foundations of what music is and add some type of twist to it.

— Jay IDK

I write music, it’s performed. After all, my music says it all. It doesn’t need historical and hysterical commentaries. In the long run, any…

— Dmitri Shostakovich

Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly constructive to…

— Rafael Vinoly

Popular music was this abstraction - an abstraction that I was relating to immensely but was ultimately far away.

— Kelela