Alfred Brendel Quotes

Music deals with time and timing. It's so magical, but when you get into it, every little sound and every little space between the sounds, it's critical, so critical. And if it's not there, it not only feels wrong, but it ruins things.

As far as favorite tunes, 'You Know You Know' is one, and why it is important is difficult to say. The rhythmic cycle is very interesting and challenging to play, since it can be considered three bars of 4/4 or four bars of 3/4. 'The Dance of Maya' is another, and I have to mention 'Sanctuary.'

I've been taking tabla lessons and they've helped expand my rhythmic horizons.

Rhythm is the pulse of music.

I play the piano and write music.

I liken movies to playing a piano: Sometimes you're playing the chords and different notes with unresolved cadences and playing all major chords that are all over the place, and you're enjoying yourself with a great, simple melody.

I like creating these rhythmic patterns. These interlocking rhythmic things are really fun.

I play more rhythmically than I do a lot of notes.

Only a tiny portion of music history involves a singer and a lyric. Songs in music are generally thought to be a minor form.

I guess I've become very accustomed to playing in the 7/4, which is something we've done quite a lot.

I don't know how to play easy.

We knew we wanted to put a lot of melody into it - a lot more than what we did on our first album.

In my piano concerto I developed this polyphony to much higher complexity.

Elliott Carter does not write the kind of music that the kids go off to school whistling.

The best way to express rhythm is music.

There's not much music I'll listen to if it doesn't have pretty heavy swing. Rhythm is so important. Punk rock would have more power and feeling if it had swing.

I would listen to something on the radio and try to tap out the melody, then the harmonies.

I'm not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.

Well I guess my music came to prominence around one piece called 'In C' which I wrote in 1964 at that time it was called 'The Global Villages for Symphonic Pieces', because it was a piece built out of 53 simple patterns and the structure was new to music at that time.

If you listen to the way I speak, I have a lot of rhythm, use a lot of accents. When I'm playing my instrument, that concept comes through very clearly.

My wife is a classically trained piano player, and she also orchestrates.

Orchestras have become used to the emphasis on the separation of layers, of the ultimate precision and clarity.

I am about the arrangements and the layers of depth in the music.

I was a piano player. I love piano playing. I just love all music.

I studied piano for seven years and play for my own enjoyment.