Musical Piece Quotes

Second edition of Earthworks I have the more traditional compositional approach, namely I write a piece from the piano.

In writing music, the structure of each piece is a very important factor.

Bizet was a very young man when he composed this symphony, so play it softly.

I recently did a piece for the Boston Pops and John Williams, and I hope that it's as well a composed piece as I've ever done for any other medium or occasion.

The encore should wrap up the audience's experience of the piece you just played.

Using the Adagietto of Mahler's Fifth is one of the touches of pure genius in Visconti's film (even though Mahlerians complain very loudly that the piece has been ruined), since it corresponds perfectly to Aschenbach's yearnings and to his circling walks around Venice.

'Spring One' probably has only four bars of Vivaldi in it, but it feels like it's all Vivaldi. It's odd. It's a bit like walking around a sculpture, you just sort of see it from a different angle.

I have one piece of music, since 1997, and I don't see it having lyrics. Where does it go in this world? So I haven't recorded it.

The song came out to be a gem, just came out to be a really, really interesting rendition of it.

It's not possible to build a piece that stands successfully without talking about its shape. But if you talk too much, you lead people away from the music itself.

I want to record 'Goyescas' by Granados, which has been a great love of mine since I was a teenager.

It's interesting about classical music that the more you hear something, the more you get to know a piece, the better and better it gets, period, which is just an interesting thing on it.

I was playing 'The Flight of the Bumblebee,' and I totally forgot the ending, so I performed the whole piece again, and I still couldn't remember it.

Michael Berkeley's 'Sonata' is very - what can you say - melodious.

Oh, the foghorns... even the foghorns, they're all brass. It's something by Ingrid Marshal called Fog Tropes. It's not a sound effect. It's an actual piece of music. If you listen to what's going on after he has a flashback about his wife you'll hear... it sounds like the humpback whales in a way. But it's all music. And we use it again later, too.

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