Meaningful Sound Quotes

I'd rather hold one note for an hour and modulate it so that it means something than play 3,000 notes in 15 seconds.

I'm writing music that people can grasp and hold on to... something that resonates. If you don't have that, then you have nothing.

By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense.

If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand...... But until we find this new way of speaking, until we can find a nonapproximate vocabulary, nonsense words are the best thing we've got. Ifactifice is one such word.

Opera is music AND drama. I'm prepared to sacrifice the beautiful note for the meaningful sound any time... I can make a pretty tone as well as anyone, but there are times when the drama of a scene demands the opposite of a pretty sound.

Soft silly music is meaningful, magical.

We need music that makes complete sense to us, and that's how 'Mess' came about.

If you get music on a personal level, you are doing something right. It's not just in one ear and out the other.

It starts with a single sound. If there's something in that sound, then it's worth continuing.