Chromaticism Quotes

Gesualdo was very important to me, I wanted to do something which corresponded to him.

My favourite chord? Bb6th with added 9th.

Well, let me, first of all, say, that as a microtonal composer, I've never been much of a theorist.

Rachmaninov has some kind of weird dark edge to his music which I don't think I've heard with any other kind of music before.

In improvising, you've got your scale; you've got the notes that are going to sound good with other notes, the intervals that are going to sound good. But you've also got all the chromatic possibilities, the possibilities of sounding dissident, of being unexpected.

Before you can apply chromatic ideas to scales and arpeggios, you have to get the chromatic scale itself under your fingers. You should learn it up and down the neck, and become comfortable with the fingerings.

For me, Debussy is the door to all 20th-century music.

I've learnt new scales through playing different types of music, like Indian raga scales, gipsy scales and harmonically-based jazz scales.

I guess I like minor chords better than major ones, in general.