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Technique is superficial. The method used in applying technique is what gives music its character.
Music, photography, media, film - it's all going to be free on the Internet. We have to accept it.
I wanted to find a bridge between Musique Concrete, electro-acoustic music, and proper rock music.
We all think we are connected to the world now, but we are not talking to our neighbours any more.
If you don't have enough time to accomplish something, consider the work finished once it's begun.
I want to change my way of seeing, NOT my way of feeling. I was perfectly happy about my feelings.
In the nature of the use of chance operations is the belief that all answers answer all questions.
I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer.
Wine snobbery, of course, is part showmanship, part sophistication, part knowledge, and part bluff
Yes, influences are enriching, and they can be found in every work of art, even the most original.
If one uses music that one does not really love, then one will not succeed in making it one's own.
Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.
The sky hides the night behind it and shelters the people beneath from the horror that lies above.
Achievements, seldom credited to their source, are the result of unspeakable drudgery and worries.
I was tired of my lady, we'd been together too long, like a worn-out recording of a favorite song.
Anything that is white is sweet. Anything that is brown is meat. Anything that is grey, don't eat.
Works of art should be stimulating. They should wake people up rather than acting like a sedative.
I said to my friends that if I was going to starve, I might as well starve where the food is good.
Silence is very important. The silence between the notes are as important as the notes themselves.
Handel understands effect better than any of us -- when he chooses, he strikes like a thunderbolt.
A lot of Ennio Morricone's music is just - it's very soulful, very cinematic, and very psychedelic.
I've been to the Grammy's several times for my past nominations and it has always a fun experience.
The piano is always true to me. In times of despair, happiness, and joy, its mood is always my own.
A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one.
Water is the most purifying element. It's always involved in baptisms, healings, that kind of work.
For me, art, and especially music, exist to elevate us as far as possible above everyday existence.
The academic area of new music or modern music festivals is not something which attracts me at all.
One thing I'm doing on the new Titanic recording is actually bringing in different acoustic spaces.
Spring won't let me stay in this house any longer! I must get out and breathe the air deeply again.
I don't want to get corny, but my career really has been the personification of the American dream.
My wife and I never squabbled in front of the children. We never touched each other except in love.
From the outside, being an artist seems like a dream life, but there are much darker aspects to it.
My early life was full of music because my sisters played the piano and I started playing at three.
On one of those rare occasions when Bach appraised his own life's work, he remarked: I worked hard.
I've been writing verses For 60 years...phew! And d'yer know why I did it? T'was especially for you
I'd be happy to die for a taste of what Angel had. Someone to live for. Unafraid to say I love you.
Benny Goodman was one of the big influences as a clarinet player. That's why I wanted the clarinet.
When I am with composers, I say I am a conductor. When I am with conductors, I say I am a composer.
When the study of the arts leads to the adoration of the formula (heaven forbid), we shall be lost.
The musicals that leave us kind of staggering on our feet are the ones that really reach for a lot.
Never forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.
Artists who have won fame are often embarrassed by it; thus their first works are often their best.
I'm not one of those people who says, 'I never read reviews,' because I don't believe those people.
Most music is metaphor, but Wolff is not. I am not metaphor either. Parable, maybe. Cage is sermon.
The sky hides the night behind it, and shelters the people beneath from the horror that lies above.
I'm not actually teaching any more, but I am writing pieces for schools all the time, and for kids.
The most efficient way to memorise a piece is to use the one which proceeds in an error free manner
I don't listen to recordings of my songs. I don't avoid it, I just don't go out of my way to do it.
Behold the pre-prophetic symbols of the planes of Never. Behold, behold this thisness! This isness.
What I'm dealing with is so vast and great that it can't be called the truth. It's above the truth.