Complex Music Quotes

When you do a lyric for 'April in Paris,' those who have heard it before can hear it in a different way now. It can add perspective to a great piece of music that does not have a lyric and may be inaccessible to lot of ears because people don't deal with complex music very well.

However, very recently I have come to an understanding that complex music is not necessarily pleasant.

When I started, I didn't know how to sing in Arabic - it's a very complex and sophisticated music full of codes and modes and quarter-tones.

Mozart is always a bit of a challenge - you know, even though it is often given to very young singers, it is actually the most complicated to sing in many instances.

For me personally, Elliott Carter was and remains one of the most meaningful composers of the late 20th and early 21st centuries because he represents substance. He was the living proof of uncompromising, complex music, which at first seems inaccessible. But it becomes accessible if one digs in and sees the development through.

Mike Patton is a genius... It is definitely the hardest music I've ever played.

I was a huge fan of this band called Sparks. It was a pretty good inauguration to music, since their music is quite complex.

I've always been a fan of instructional videos. The bass-player ones are insane. The music on them is fascinating. It's not something you hear on CDs or would really ever play in bands. You listen to it and are like, 'What is happening?' It's this blizzard of notes in weird time signatures, and they're trying to teach you that.

Americans' distrust of the conspicuously intellectual - a habit we learned, I suppose, on the frontier, but which remains a feature of the national character - has the virtue of puncturing the pretentious and exposing the fake, but it may also have impaired American listeners' patience for music that is especially complex or austere.

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

It seemed like the more complex the music we were playing, the less able we were to guarantee its consistency.

I came from a Conservatoire background where the idea of complexity was very much bound up with good music - good music was seen as complex and difficult to understand.

There's this notion that music has to be confined to some small, simple place to be popular, something I never believed.

I express myself using my classical skills to write more complex forms of popular music.

That's what I love about our music - it'll never be a hit because you can't dance to it.

The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge.

As a trumpet player, I was playing Xenakis, Lindberg: very challenging, technical, atonal, and I enjoyed it.

For a band like us, one that you don't necessarily hear on the radio, it's our fans that keep us alive and keep us going, and it's been an ever-growing base, especially with the younger kids that play guitar and want to play complex music.

Progressive metal is one of the hardest styles of music to pull off live, especially while providing a tasteful show.

I have sometimes been told that my music is 'difficult' for the listener.

Our tunes aren't just sing-along tunes: they're very complex. After a few days of that, you gotta take a break.

It's rather like attending a university seminar where you are talking to a few gifted specialists who deliver a paper to an audience of their peers. That's one way of making music.

Music that is born complex is not inherently better or worse than music that is born simple.

I listen to music all the time, and I just choose things I like, or things that I've not used before. Sometimes I work with music that's very difficult - that I don't even particularly like, per se, but that is really complex or interesting.

England has had a lot of really bad periods of music, but it's had several amazing periods where they've found an incredible balance, not just between music that's a rather complex and also pretty direct. Like the Beatles.