Jane Campion Quotes

From a very early period of my life I have derived the highest enjoyment from listening to music, especially to melody, which is to me the most pleasing form of composition.

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

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 first engagement with any art was music.

Music had been my first love among the arts, and I was fascinated by it, as I still am.

The world's most famous and popular language is music.

I love classical music and often listen to symphonies or opera in the morning.

Music, of almost any kind, always made sense to me.

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

And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition.

Music is a reservoir... of sounds.

When I think of music, I think of music in totality, complete.

I started off with violin, then I started learning guitar, then I went to piano. But I self-taught piano just because I enjoyed it. I've always really enjoyed music.

Music is an intrinsic part of life; therefore, it is important to transport different forms of artistic expression, science, and mathematics into compositions.

Music is quite an enigma because it is many things together, and it is one whole body. Like a nucleus, it contains every idea, but the basic stand is the same.

When it comes to music, it's my clothes, it's my guitar, it's my voice, it's my song.

We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself.

I'm not a trained musician. When folks talk about 'Well, you go to this or that' - the tenor, or the third part - I don't really know what they're talking about.

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

I didn't really hear any other music other than what my dad was working on until I was 12. My recollection of hearing other music was that I liked some things that I heard but I always thought, 'Where's the rest of it?' It didn't have the same amount of detail or instrumentation or imagination in the arrangements.

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

Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody.

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.

Learning how to improvise really awakened my interest in music.