Gavin Bryars Quotes

I did this thing with Trisha Yearwood, a song called 'The Price.' I had been sitting on it for a while, because I figured, you know, this really needs a good singer.

Acting comes first. I would love to make an album. I was at an event... for Dionne Warwick, and we got to go in the studio and go crazy. I love singing, but it's very time consuming. I have to make time for it.

I'm thankful to Deutsche Grammophon, our partners - we are going to record the complete Shostakovich symphonies and hopefully some other things as well.

Hi-Tek is on three or four songs on the new record.

I'm not a great guitarist, but I do bits and bobs. I'm mainly a songwriter and a composer. I've done a lot of scoring and some stuff for British pop music that did pretty well, but I've mainly been working on my own stuff with Duncan Sheik.

There are loads of bands I'd love to produce.

In addition, I'm finishing a track for the movie 'Waking Up In Reno', but there are numerous other singers I look forward to recording with in the near future.

Every time I see a film or TV show, I think about how that composer made those choices and how that director envisioned music and how that could work onstage or in a film and how you could support that even further by putting lyrics to it.

Almost all the producers I know and dig, like Quincy Jones or Brian Eno, are really musicians first. I'm a composer, an orchestrator, an arranger and a musician first. I know how to write and rewrite songs, and the genius is really in the rewriting.

I wrote the tunes and sang only nonsense words. Then came Moore and dressed them with the lyrics.

I love singing and would love to record an album at some point.

There's the drums, the music, the melodies, the lyrics, the production, the artwork: there are so many elements to making an album, and the drumming is just a very small fraction of what I focus on.

Usually, I write the music and am involved in the production.

I am getting to work with some good musicians, artistes, and composers.

I love to work with producers who are very good with their chord progressions.

'The Alesha Show' was done with production crew Xenomania, and this time, I've worked with a lot of upcoming new producers.

I co-produced 'Boyfriend' by Justin Bieber and worked on Labrinth's album, so I've been keeping busy.

Since his childhood, Bappa has observed me singing and practicing and is well aware of all sorts of recording and singing arrangements. I have a studio at my home, so whenever he needs my help I make sure I stand by him. I often sing for the tunes that he composes.

Part of what I enjoy about writing classical music is communicating through the score and collaborating with such amazing musicians.

I don't like to surprise anyone with the music I compose for a film. That way, there is less trouble later on.

Jaden Smith is a good friend of mine. We've got that song that just dropped on the 'Rich Forever II' tape, and we got a couple other songs that we have in the cut.

Broken Clocks' is actually a song I produced for my boy River Tiber featuring my boy Daniel Caesar.

My performing and my singing leave much to be desired, but having other people record my songs is the most flattering thing that can happen.

It's easy for me to write songs but hard for me to write an album; that's been my experience.

The trick with 'Nutcracker' was figure out how much, and where, we could the Tchaikovsky - using as much as we possibly could and still support the storytelling.