Hildur Gudnadottir Quotes

And I like to interpret music. So I think it's all interpretive.

I write music visually.

I can't play an instrument to save my life. But when I'm creating, and when I'm making music, I feel like I'm the head of the orchestra, and I'm just waving my wand, and something is created.

The creative process of composing music has always fascinated me.

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.

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.

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

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.

I was really excited to have the opportunity to make Fiddler.

I am an interpreter of music rather than a composer of it.

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

However, I began composing as soon as I started taking piano lessons.

The hardest of all the arts to speak of is music, because music has no meaning to speak of.

I think musically.

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.

I don't know what really makes a great musical or not. In the end, you write it, and you write it because you want to write it.

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

I don't think you can have a calculated approach towards learning music.

Conducting is a natural way to participate in one's own music. Almost every 19th-century composer Mendelssohn, Mahler was conducting or playing his own music. Mozart did both.

I just play music by listening and responding, so I don't know anything about writing songs or arranging and all of this stuff. You know, it's in my head, but I don't know how to get it out.

In some ways, it's more rewarding to hear someone interpret a piece of music that you're a part of.

What's cool about making music is when you create a record, it comes from somewhere.

That's all I ever do, just try and do the best I can and cater to the song, cater to the music.