Edgard Varese Quotes

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

Composing music is hard work.

Originally, I wanted to be a composer. I always tell people, 'I think of myself as a composer.'

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

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.

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

I'm an interpreter of music.

But I find that the keyboard is the complete instrument you know?

I actually write my own music whenever I have a chance. I play guitar and sing.

I played piano, I learned a lot about music.

The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes.

It's very demanding to make up your own music.

I write music visually.

I like to create the music I hear in my interior. As a conductor, you have the ability to squeeze the sounds and interpretation you asked for from 50 to 80 people.

The creative process of composing music has always fascinated me.

I used to do most of my composing at a little table in a cafe. Composing for 52 instruments, I had to figure out how to accommodate myself to the small table.

I think that the process of making music is a hard one to describe as well.

A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.

I write the music, produce it and the band plays within the parameters that I set.

Just, you know, you can't put bread in a cold oven. You know, you've got to take your time. You've got to heat it up. So that's what, that's what I like to do with my music. I like to build it, and build it into a maddening, exciting crescendo.

Music assists him in the use of harmonic and mathematical proportion.

I consider myself a composer.

The lead guitar work is a bit repetitious, but when a song is under two minutes long, I don't have much room anyway. Thank goodness. But I've always contributed guitar parts to every band I've ever been in, so I'll always play the axe.

Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge, for it requires from its disciples, composers and performers alike, not only talent and enthusiasm, but also that knowledge and perception which are the result of protracted study and reflection.

I'm working on my music a lot, like folk singing, guitar. It's sort of rocky, folky, alty, angsty. I'm putting a lot of energy into that. I write pretty much all the time.