Tod Machover Quotes

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

Chopin was a master of melody, harmony and voice leading - the art of smoothly moving from chord to chord.

I started writing music as a composer in school, in the classical tradition.

Songwriting is different from music, although I don't deny now that it would be nice to have a little more background in music theory.

I grew up at the piano, and I longed to write musicals.

I was fifteen years old, and I hardly knew how to play a simple Bach prelude on the piano when I began to compose music, and at the most advanced level. I had never studied such things as harmony.

I really believe musical form will go on. There's got to be a way of making musical form in cinema live again.

I haven't written enough songs to be able to say that I have a system. I've only written a handful.

My wife is a classically trained piano player, and she also orchestrates.

I studied harmony and composition in a very spontaneous manner.

I think a melody is a melody. And the way I usually start is I start writing my themes without even writing to picture to just try to find the tone for the movie or the TV show.

I had a really pleasant time composing music for 'Raaga.'

I'm not a total chump. I write stuff that's reasonably musically complex.

Most of everything I've ever written actually was written on acoustic. 'Do You Feel' was written on electric. 'I'm in You' was written on piano.

It would be cool to custom-write music for some kind of story. That'd be cool.

Of all composers, past and present, I am the least learned. I mean that in all seriousness, and by learning I do not mean knowledge of music.

I think what I wanted to do was meet someone who knew more than me about songwriting structure and progressions and middle eights and things that more traditional writers write and I don't usually employ.

What I really enjoy and what I do in the studio is play keyboard.

I'm usually just writing lyrics alone in my room, but I'm happy to be producing and writing chords anywhere.

I personally like melodies. And Mani Sharma garu is the Melody Brahma.

I want to write orchestral music. I want to get a group of singers together and sing William Byrd songs.

I'll hear a phrase around me that someone says... I'll write it down in my notebook, and as soon as I'll sit down with my guitar, I'll come up with the rest of the arrangement there.

I do play a lot of instruments. I started with the harp when I was young and then sort of moved to guitar and piano.

So when I started writing my own stuff, it was with a lot of combinations and time changes and power.

I've played the guitar since I was 12, I've played the piano since I was 15.