Jane Siberry Quotes

I played piano, I learned a lot about music.

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.

The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees.

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

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

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

Just like using an instrument, a song calls for different things.

I can take any series of numbers and turn it into music, from Bach to bebop, Herbie Hancock to hip-hop.

Just, you know, you can't put bread in a cold oven. You know, you've got to take your time. You've got to heat it up. So that's what, that's what I like to do with my music. I like to build it, and build it into a maddening, exciting crescendo.

Music assists him in the use of harmonic and mathematical proportion.

A melody is not merely something you can hum.

I feel pretty comfortable in a lot of different musical styles. I like rhythm, and I like melody and so forth.

I listened to many different types of instruments and music, and have always tried to look at the bass as an instrument as opposed to only a bass.

Classical - perhaps I should say 'orchestral' - music is so digital, so cut up, rhythmically, pitchwise and in terms of the roles of the musicians. It's all in little boxes. The reason you get child prodigies in chess, arithmetic, and classical composition is that they are all worlds of discontinuous, parceled-up possibilities.

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

It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.

All you have to do is play one note. But it needs to be the right note.

After conducting Wagner, Beethoven's triple concerto is like taking an Alka Seltzer.

Ben was more improvisational, and relied less on methodology, and basically is a guitarist who switched to bass, whereas Jeff has a more traditional approach to playing bass in a band, and has a great sense of what his band sounds like, and we lock up nicely.

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

Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound.

I never learned to verbalize an abstract musical concept. No thank you. The whole point of being a serious musician is to avoid verbalization whenever you can.

I've never really been schooled in music theory. I'm a guitar player, and I attack the guitar in a certain way that it not fully unique to me, but it's more unique that some other people.

How to play music may be known. At the commencement of the piece, all the parts should sound together. As it proceeds, they should be in harmony while severally distinct and flowing without break, and thus on to the conclusion.