Gavin Bryars Quotes

I write music visually.

Everyone who makes music is a good collaborator at their foundation because in order to make music, you have to connect to it in a way that other people can't.

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

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

I usually write my music on a piano, and I really enjoy performing that way, because that actually shows how the music was in my mind before it actually became an electronic song.

Writing music and lyrics, you tend to become a control freak - sitting alone in your room with a bare light bulb over your head, writing communist manifestos.

For the most part, I like to record music as I write it.

I just happened to start playing music for the conceptual ideas.

My music wouldn't sound the way it does if I hadn't had the experience of conducting.

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

For me making music is part social, part interaction, part collaboration.

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.

Performing written music, even when I've written it, is not very interesting to me.

It's such a joy to work with different ensembles and create a collaboration. Rehearsing and building a performance is very interesting for me.

The relation between practical and spiritual spheres in music is obvious, if only because it demands ears, finger, consciousness and intellect.

I think musically.

Music is supposed to be inspired.

The creative process of composing music has always fascinated me.

Music is all about creativity.

In order to compose, all you need to do is remember a tune that nobody else has thought of.

The reality for me is simple. When music is written, it is usually categorized as classical. When it is improvised, it can still be called classical if it is an inspired improvisation. In either category, it is still music, and it can be good or bad or simply mediocre.

I wish I could play music. I think I get as closeas possible with the editing of the films. Over the years musichas been an even more important influence than-or as important as-film.There's no doubt about it. Painting, movement, dance, sculpture-it'sall in cinema.

The model of a composer.

The composer makes plans, music laughs.

Music is first, lyrics are secondary.