Harrison Birtwistle Quotes

One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We're not scientists. We don't always have to make the logical, reasonable leap.

I think it would be very foolish not to take the irrational seriously.

In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.

No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical.

The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.

For once, you're going to hear something that doesn't fit into your neat, compartmentalized world of order and logic and reason.

I try to live the moment and not obey laws, rules, conventions, or norms; to react to a sensation, a feeling, or an emotion. You can't program emotion.

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

It's important to have people who will say to you that you're really off the beaten track.

Simplicity, for reasons that are a little bit obscure, is almost not pursued, at least in the academic world.

The 21st century does not like tidy minds.

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

That is the way we are made: we don't reason, where we feel; we just feel.

Love is many things none of them logical.

If you're inside the box and a cross is coming, sometimes you need, as we say in Spanish, to smell the intuition, to smell where the cross is going.

My crutch was, in improvs, when in doubt, play insane, because you didn't have to excuse anything that came out of your mouth. It didn't have to make sense.

There can be no technique or formula for creativity.

I actually found not having a routine was inspiration.

When I decide to do things in my life, it's because I feel it.

I've done things so unconventionally that I don't think I'd ever be able to lead by someone else's example or the way somebody else has done it. Everybody has their own way of going about things and mine seems to be completely different.

I trust my gut instinct, and go against the grain and it works.

The most successful people in the world are the ones who thought of that idea that was 'too crazy to work.'

Lean just follows his heart wherever it wants to go.

I pride myself on being able to create mismatches. That's what I've done my whole life.

Drama starts where logic ends.