Leon Theremin Quotes

Composers are the only people who can hear good music above bad sounds.

Music is essentially built upon primitive memory structures.

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

I had a very strong interest in music, specifically the piano from a very small age.

In serial music, the series itself is seldom audible... What I'm interested in is a compositional process and a sounding music that are one in the same thing.

My first instrument was a little blue ukele.

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.

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

I'm kind of the town pump. I think I have a pretty good ear for what sounds good in this style.

I've always wanted to make music like people write plays, so I was inspired by writers as much as musicians.

Make your own music. It can be done.

My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.

Today, with a recording, he can hear the thing enough times until he really gets acquainted with the language, and then he can begin to make an estimate of the intrinsic, aesthetic value of that piece of music.

I also have a big love of classical music played on piano because this is the environment I grew up in my brother being one of the great masters in this world.

I would enjoy venturing into music, as I do write songs and compose music! And, of course, dance, rhythm and performance are in my blood, so eventually I see myself doing something in that area, surely!

I started studying music at the age of five and a half. My older sister was taking piano lessons. When her teacher left our apartment, I would get up on the piano bench and start picking out the notes that were part of my sister's lessons.

I never really trained to be a musician, but I've been playing guitar since I was around, like, 13 years old. For me, the guitar has always been the instrument that I've played. I play a little piano. I taught myself everything by ear. I don't read music at all, which has not really been a hindrance.

I wish I finished music school, because then I feel like I could talk more about the dissonant notes.

I've never known how to read music in my life.

You just wake up and make music.

I suspect music is auditory cheesecake, an exquisite confection crafted to tickle the sensitive spots of... our mental faculties.

Trying to describe something musical is like dancing to architecture, it's really difficult.

I've never really been schooled in music theory. I'm a guitar player, and I attack the guitar in a certain way that it not fully unique to me, but it's more unique that some other people.

Music is made up out of these building blocks. Studying how these blocks go together and what they consist of and the math of how it works - it's all the same stuff; it's just different aesthetics that we're talking about.

I am so happy that I didn't go to school and I didn't have anyone to tell me how to position my fingers on the piano correctly. And what you do with music and what is the correct way to write it and what is not the correct way to write it.