Sxip Shirey Quotes

Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century.

In contrast, traditional classical music starts from an abstract musical schema. This is then notated and only expressed in concrete sound as a last stage, when it is performed.

We have emotions for a reason; for instance, imagine pain. You have pain so that if you touch something that's hot, or if you slam your hand with a hammer, you will pull your hand away and not do that again.

Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.

Everything that I do is for sound goals. It comes from my gut. When I'm sitting in the studio, a mix isn't done till I feel it in my gut.

I hear a lot of bad TV commercials that try to sound like Where It's At. That pretty much turned me off from using the electric piano for a lot of years.

Yidaki didgeridoo has been used in every part of Australian regional culture, all around the country. It's become a message stick for the survival of those people, for aboriginal people and aboriginal culture.

Look at it this way - a totem pole is just a decorated tree. My work is a confessional.

Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country.

So the animal finally performs in that situation only the fitting act.

New music is absolutely integral to classical music.

No, but a cello is the perfect string bass for an accordion. Works with it beautifully.

I find all folklore challenging, and I never cease to be grateful that I became a professional folklorist.

Ramones music has a Pavlovian effect on me - the song starts, and the world blurs around the sound.

My father gave me formal education in raagdari. He died in Lahore in 1964 when I was 13. I was in the tenth year of school, and my father's brother took me into the qawwali ensemble and started giving me formal education in qawwali.

There's something about the pipes that just connects with Scots, they go mental for it - it's in our DNA somehow.

There are certain sounds that have a loaded past. Like the sound of a harp, if you go back to old movies, represents a dream sequence; it transports you there.

It is the responsibility of music composers to add some classical music elements into their songs to make the music genre popular.

I come from a classical background.

It was like a musician playing notes. Everything we trained worked.

It's easier to interest a conservative audience in pushing the musical boundaries than to involve a young audience used to very noisy, assertive music in something like Schubert or Bach because the further back you go, the less bells and whistles there are.

Emotional excitement reaches men through tea, tobacco, opium, whisky, and religion.

The sound of a jet, an engine warming up, even the clopping of shod hooves on pavement brings on the ancient shudder, the dry mouth and vacant eye, the hot palms and the churn of stomach high up under the rib cage.

When I see a new face, something sets off an alarm bell inside me. 'slow down! Danger!' Even when the attraction is strongest, I am on my guard.

When one has nothing left make ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them.