Graeme Murphy Quotes

And I like to interpret music. So I think it's all interpretive.

It's entertaining to watch somebody break my music down or explain what he thinks I was thinking during the process of making these records. Because... he has no idea.

I've always felt that music is an art form that deserves to live the life of the artist.

The two have to go hand in hand - the atmosphere and the music. I actually get rather worried if I can't see the music first. There always needs to be a mood, a feeling, a story, even if it is abstract. There's got to be a narrative to guide things before they're even created.

The good thing about songwriting is you don't have to delineate between what's true and what's fiction; records aren't put on the shelf that way. Books are, movies are, but records aren't.

The greatest respect an artist can pay to music is to give it life.

Being a musician enables a person to bend the notes and express things that are inside you, no matter what.

I think the world is very much embracing this whole concept of musicians going out and playing their instruments and playing music for music as opposed to music that has something to do with some form of image or imagery.

If music leaves any impression at all, it does so without regard to stylistic issues.

I think it's always interesting how music means different things to different people, and people who overthink it are looking to in some ways show off with music, versus people who just respond to a song and decide to sing it.

I realize that I'm not going to be everybody's cup of tea, and that's okay. I think that's the point of music.

Is it not the business of the conductor to convey to the public in its dramatic form the central idea of a composition; and how can he convey that idea successfully if he does not enter heart and soul into the life of the music and the tale it unfolds?

The moment at which music reveals its true nature is contained in the ancient exercise of the theme with variations. The complete mystery of music is explained right there.

I'm trying to interpret the film through the director's head, but it all comes out through me. So, a composer is kind of like a psychic medium.

The character of instrumental music... lets the emotions radiate and shine in their own character without presuming to display them as real or imaginary representations.

If someone asked what kind of music I play, I wouldn't say I'm a folk singer; however, if folk music means music for the people, and playing music to entertain them and share different messages, then sure, I'd like to think that I'm part folk singer.

That makes classical music work, the ability to improvise.

With few exceptions, music has been for some centuries the art which has devoted itself not to the reproduction of natural phenomena, but rather to the expression of the artist's soul, in musical sound.

So the thing is to put out music for music's sake.

I just try to approach and serve the music in the way that I think is right for the band I'm in at the time.

I hear music as narrative.

A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated from it.

I've always wanted to make music like people write plays, so I was inspired by writers as much as musicians.

I like the fact that music is more abstract.

My training in music and composition then led me to a kind of musical language process in which, for example, the sound of the words I play with has to expose their true meaning against their will so to speak.