Harrison Birtwistle Quotes

I've been around two years shy of 50 years doing what I do. I am a musician.

I honestly don't listen to a lot of music - I spend so much time working at my own music.

I was someone who knew what they wanted to do for so long. I was always fascinated by music, always a student of pop.

I have no such ambition of becoming an actor. I want to grow as a musician, singer and songwriter.

I write and play music. I'd like to be a musician at some point.

I played the guitar and thought that was what I was going to do as a career. I still record music that is played in my restaurants.

I don't watch TV. In my spare time, if I have any, I want to make music.

Preparing for a future in music is an expensive proposition.

I never really thought about becoming a professional musician.

I knew when I went to a very hippie high school that focused on music that I wanted to do something in the industry.

After school I moved to London to get involved in music. I took the whole thing very seriously.

I attended a post-college program in L.A. for Music Business and Production. Took several courses involving Music Production, Arrangement, and Songwriting.

I have an independent record label called Favored Nations on which I released an album by an artist called Johnny A, who plays an arch top Gibson through a Marshall, but the tone is all in his fingers.

Everything in my life has been about sound and making music, so Beats represents just that - the improvement of sound and the dedication to everything I've been doing from the day I started.

I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop - and that inspired what kind of music I started to write.

Music's not like becoming a doctor, who can walk into a community and find people who need him.

A musician is a professional, whether he or she is successful or not. The profession itself must be regarded as a stable job.

You can still make music that people love, but there won't be more innovation. I started listening to electronic music a long time ago. But mostly I listen to rap. I think rap is the most interesting.

You rarely find someone who sings really well and who produces really well; it's a problem, and I just think it's a missing link in the music scene.

I was in a rock band; I was my own folk singer; I was in a death metal band for a very short time; I was in a cover band, a jazz band, a blues band. I was in a gospel choir.

Music is what I want to do for the rest of my life.

One always has to remember these days where the garbage pail is, because it's so easy to make sounds, and to put sounds together into something that appears to be music, but it's just as hard as it always was to make good music.

I always said when I was younger, I wanted to write film music, and I think that's what my ultimate dream is.

I did record a bunch of stuff, but the thing that usually stops me from doing that is that I'm a terrible singer. I made a bunch of instrumental music, and it feels really good, but just as a singer, I'm not good.

Music is my number one, it's my life, it's my everything. I'm enjoying challenging myself; I want to raise the bar and set a new standard for Australian pop artists.