Luciano Berio Quotes

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.

I played piano, I learned a lot about music.

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

I'm an interpreter of music.

Music. It's all creativity right here, right now.

I just happened to start playing music for the conceptual ideas.

Music is all about training in harmony, training to understand and use musical energy for our greater pleasure by attuning to the natural laws of the universe.

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

The hardest of all the arts to speak of is music, because music has no meaning to speak of.

To be a good improviser, you have to study composition as a parallel. Because what improvisation is, on a high level, is spontaneous composition.

I don't know what aids creativity. All I know is that it feels natural to hold a guitar in my hands and sing.

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

The creative process of composing music has always fascinated me.

Music is something you can't really put in terms like in a sport, like running or football - that you win if you score more. In music, there's nothing like that.

I didn't have to apply my mind to the aspects of scales and playing, and instead, I focused on creativity. I wrote music, but I didn't 'practice' it. So yeah, you can always get better and improve your technique, but hopefully, that comes through being a musician and composing and being a creative individual.

Music is all about creativity.

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.

My musical knowledge is so bad it's embarrassing. When composers discuss music with someone as primitive as myself, they have to talk about it in terms of senses and emotion, rather than keys and tempo.

I'm making music with my friends. It's fun. It should be fun. You shouldn't make music if it isn't fun.

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

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

It'll help you be imaginative if you listen to classical music. It helps you understand dynamics and how important they are to create an environment.

My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now.

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