Steven Price Quotes

We hope that eventually there would be an occasion which I can personally prove that game music can in fact impress many different people and move them.

I don't think I have ever met a single person who isn't moved by music of some kind.

Obviously for some people there is a big connection between music and the way you can create a space.

In my model, important interference phenomena arise when individual strata come into contact. These chaotic fluctuations are, I suppose, what my music is really 'about.'

Opera tells stories through the pure emotion of music. An exhibition has to tell a story purely visually. I've tried to incorporate both of those things - pure emotion and being more visual - into my writing.

Music remains the most strange of the materials because we don't understand what happens when music moves you.

For me, the backdrop of half the experiences of life includes music.

If a composer is to reach his audience emotionally - and surely that's what theatre music is all about - he must reach the people through sounds they can relate to.

People ask what was the first piece of music I wrote. There was no first piece.

One of my initial memories of being taken over by music was watching Paul McCartney on TV play a tribute to John Lennon. He was playing piano by himself and singing 'Imagine,' and I remember feeling an anxiety and shortness of breath.

In my songs, I'm not saying something that's never been said before. The have lyrics aren't going to blow people away. It's the emotion and the melody that drive it home.

Ultimately, I'm a fan of music. I describe writing music sometimes as hieroglyphics, like, you know, excavating, gently brushing off these artifacts and discovering the song underneath it all. It seems as if it is already written in it.

I always had a love of music, from the time I was a little kid, dressing up and singing along with Michael Jackson songs.

Music is a big part of my life. I listen to different genres, and I choose the music that will inspire the next part of my story.

Part of the joy of music is listening to lots of different kinds of music and learning from it. Specifically for me, I like writing songs that move me, and what moves me are beautiful songs on the piano or the guitar and really, really heavy music.

Ultimately, at the end of it, it's just trying to get into that space where you feel like you're hitting the right thing and you're making music. And it feels intuitive rather than being counterintuitive.

I'm inspired by artists and musicians. There are so many wonderful and talented people in the world. I love discovering new music, new writers, or new art.

Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.

I've done a lot of movies that don't have any music in them, and I've always sort of had a kind of wary attitude about music because it can be so manipulative, and also because with pop music, I feel like everybody kind of has their own relationship to songs.

Only the tone-deaf doubt the power of music, though some feel it more strongly than others.

Music's always been a huge part of my life, and my first record came out in 1981.

People say to me now, 'Oh, you've given up the piano.' How can you? Music is a virus.

I think it's such a powerful thing: Words and melodies, and you put them together. I couldn't really picture a world without music. It would be quite boring.

Music, I feel like, affects people's moods.

Composing is improvisation slowed down.