Peter Hook Quotes

I love doing concert music.

I really enjoy creating music onstage, to participate in making music live.

In the U.K., classical music is composed by individuals and written down. Indian music is based on certain sequences called ragas. When I perform live, 95% of the music is improvised: it never sounds the same twice.

I'm very lucky to work in so many different arenas of the entertainment industry and I do enjoy them all, but making music - original music - in the studio or live onstage is definitely my favorite thing to do.

If you don't have a good rhythm section, your band is toast; you're a bar band. Good rhythm section, you've got a chance to get out of the bar.

Music has generally involved a lot of awkward contraptions, a certain amount of heavy lifting.

My whole life, I've been watching conductors. I was 7 the first time I played with a conductor. Seeing the ones that do it well, it's an amazing thing.

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

I feel my live shows are my music; everything blossoms from the live shows.

There's an awful lot of resources that can be drawn upon in an improvised music concert.

I listen mostly to live music, and mostly my musical experience was playing music with other people.

The value of music is to be able to play one note at the right time in the right way.

I make music that I know that people will enjoy, and balance the ideas and philosophy that we put in music with music that when we play it live, people can move to it and groove to it.

That's one of the good things about music. You get to do it live, where you can touch the people and interact with them.

There's nothing to compare to live music, there just isn't anything.

Music is a performance and needs the audience.

I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing.

I used to play the piano in the band, and so there's some horrendous scenes of me playing the keyboards.

I have never played anything live - except for a few special occasions - from 'Fish Out of Water.'

I don't know if they were all functioning, but I did play in a bunch of bands.

A concert is not a live rendition of our album. It's a theatrica! event.

Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the conductor; we do not remember him in it.

So in one sense you don't have the classic keyboard player in Yes.

I started at home as a kid putting on shows and lip-syncing Michael Jackson for the grown-ups. Then, in musicals and plays in school. At 17, I was performing in coffee shops and in parking lots at Phish shows. At 18, I had a band that played local shows in the Northwest.

When I do the music, I make the musicians listen to what's happening in the film. That way they treat the dialogue as if it was a singer.