Jason Nash Quotes

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 am so happy that I didn't go to school and I didn't have anyone to tell me how to position my fingers on the piano correctly. And what you do with music and what is the correct way to write it and what is not the correct way to write it.

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

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

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

I grew up with a piano, and my aunt taught me chords. I played with bands in high school and I could do like, C chord, G chord, D chord; really simple, rhythm piano.

I can play songs that I hear from a movie and just play it a few times on the keyboard. I will hit all the notes on the keyboard until I find the right key, and then I will play the rest of the song.

All the conductor has to do is stand back and try not to get in the way. Mozart is doing all the work.

The real architecture happens within the works themselves, and that was done by the composer. That's where the real skill is. In putting together a program, you're more a curator, but that's important as well. And then the interpreting of it is where our big job is.

I played piano, I learned a lot about music.

I never learned to read music.

I've never known how to read music in my life.

It has never been necessary for me to learn how to read music.

Scales played in the correct musical way are very exciting and rewarding.

The parts I enjoy playing aren't really available to me. So I have to write them.

I grew up playing classical piano and percussion.

I'm not an intellectual composer.