Maggie Stiefvater Quotes

I bid the chords sweet music make, And all must follow in my wake.

A melody is not merely something you can hum.

It doesn't take much for anyone to pick up anything I play - it's quite simple. I go for a good song. And if you hear a good song, you don't dissect it - you just listen, and every bit seems right.

My version of 'Fast Car' is in the same key as the original. To me that is where all the emotion lies.

I was drawn to love songs, but I was just drawn to great music - no matter if it's hip-hop, pop, R&B or whether it's rock n' roll or country. It could be a Garth Brooks song, and if it's a smash, then I'll love the different wordplay and different melodies. That's what I'm a fan of - great music.

That is basically me, and although I have done many things in my life - conducting, playing piano, and so on - what is fundamental is my being a composer.

When you have great songs that are going to live longer than the composers, everything you can do to bring those different elements and nuances out, serve the song.

I can take any series of numbers and turn it into music, from Bach to bebop, Herbie Hancock to hip-hop.

It's quite hard to have your mom as a teacher - it's like, she's not necessarily a 'real teacher' for me. But she'd always teach me to really hear the music, and develop my ear, and to try and hear the harmonics of the piano.

I can sit on a chair with a score and give myself a wonderful performance.

I read and write classical piano and percussion, also guitar.

I'm an interpreter of music.

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

My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now.

Music. It's all creativity right here, right now.

I'm kind of the town pump. I think I have a pretty good ear for what sounds good in this style.

I love doing concert music.

I'm an intuitive musician. I have no real technical skills. I can only play six chords on the guitar.

The conductor's gift does not always go hand in hand with that of composition; indeed, the union is found much more seldom than is popularly believed.

No one has any respect for someone who can play a million notes per minute but can't put together a decent tune that someone can sing to or feel some sort of emotion from.

My music is simple stuff. Anybody can sit down, look at a set of symbols and produce sounds the music represents.

Composers love to write for symphony orchestras because the symphony is the Rolls Royce of musical instruments.

Yes, I love to play drums and bass and guitar and piano. Those are the main instruments I play. That is it.

I do love using keyboards and I love writing keyboard parts, but I am not a player in the true sense of the word.

Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the conductor; we do not remember him in it.