Dave Brubeck Quotes

The creative process of composing music has always fascinated me.

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

I think musically.

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.

Music is first, lyrics are secondary.

Beethoven was just music, and it didn't matter if he could hear it or not - he could feel it. He could hear it in his mind. He could write it down hearing it in his mind. He was just music. Yeah, he's one of my favorite writers of all times.

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

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.

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

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.

My music wouldn't sound the way it does if I hadn't had the experience of conducting.

I never think about rhythm versus melody; I've always just played to what's in my head.

The real architecture happens within the works themselves, and that was done by the composer. That's where the real skill is. In putting together a program, you're more a curator, but that's important as well. And then the interpreting of it is where our big job is.

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

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

Music is a very physical experience, and I need to understand things physically to be able to create the narrative for them.

I could care less about the particular. I like to make music.

I'm always making music. I'm constantly making little musical recordings on my phone or on a little voice recorder I carry with me so I can remember these little pieces of music that eventually becomes songs.

Eventually I had so many little melodies and ideas that, you know, that they were all songs to me and I threw in a few cover songs like Enya's "Watermark," Bach, and my dad's song, "Song for the Whales."

I wish I could play music. I think I get as closeas possible with the editing of the films. Over the years musichas been an even more important influence than-or as important as-film.There's no doubt about it. Painting, movement, dance, sculpture-it'sall in cinema.

I play music - I write my own music, but I play music, just background music really, and just let it happen.

I find little in the works of Beethoven, Berlioz, Wagner and others when they are led by a conductor who functions like a windmill.

The value of music is to be able to play one note at the right time in the right way.

I loved the guitar, and I had all of this music in my head. My passion for the guitar and the ideas for what I could create musically were equal. So that's where I was.