Musical Logic Quotes

Business logic and musical logic are utterly incompatible.

Being honest and spontaneous is important when making music. But I'm also really logical when I compose.

What I don't like to hear in music is something has not been thought through: that a sound is just there randomly. I want to make sure that every single little noise that's in my song is there because it's supposed to be there.

At this time the fashion is to bring something to jazz that I reject. They speak of freedom. But one has no right, under pretext of freeing yourself, to be illogical and incoherent by getting rid of structure and simply piling a lot of notes one on top of the other. There's no beat anymore. You can't keep time with your foot. I believe that what is happening to jazz with people like Ornette Coleman, for instance, is bad. There's a new idea that consists in destroying everything and find what's shocking and unexpected; whereas jazz must first of all tell a story that anyone can understand.

Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.

I write a lot by sound. One sound leads me to another. These sounds aren't random; they have their own logic.

He was very much concerned with logic and function, he always worked his solos out before playing them.

In music I do not look for logic. I am quite intuitive on the whole and know no theories. I never like a work if I cannot intuitively grasp its inner unity (architecture).