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Glenn Branca, born on October 6, 1948, is a renowned composer known for his experimental and innovative works that have had a profound impact on the contemporary music scene.

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“It can and will be a more powerful sound but the orchestra has far more potential for expressive power. When I hear a great rock band it can make me feel alive, but when I hear a great orchestra it can make me feel human.”

Feels Humans Sound Powerful Alive Rocks Band Orchestra Expressive Rock Bands

Author:Glenn Branca

“I'm constantly revising and updating a piece until it's finally recorded. Once it's recorded, then it's over.”

Pieces Revising

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“I'm never happy with anything.”

Author:Glenn Branca

“Whatever works for the piece I'm thinking about is the way I write.”

Thinking Way Writing Pieces Whatever Works

Author:Glenn Branca

“I liked rock music going back to the '60s, but I never ever had any desire to be a rock musician and when I started doing a band it was experimental music.”

Desire Rocks Band Musician Rock Music Rock Musicians Experimental Music

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“There were a lot of people doing new and interesting things with rock. But I wanted to take it farther than that. My real influence was punk. I must have listened to the first Patti Smith album 300 times.”

People Firsts Real Wanted Interesting Influence Rocks Albums Punk Interesting Things

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“I could create music that sounded as strange as any electronic music, because you see, my opinion about electronic music is that the real composer is the guy who invented the instrument. Pressing buttons is not composing. Composing is about creating something.”

Real Guy Opinion Strange Creating Music Is Instruments Composer Buttons Composing Electronic Music Creating Something

Author:Glenn Branca

“I think of myself of a primitivist. I have never had any of these electronic instruments and I have never had the slightest interest in using them. I use the computer as a tool, simply because it makes composing a lot faster. But I don't go on stage with a computer and make a lot of goofy sounds.”

Thinking Use Sound Interest Stage Goes On Computer Tools Instruments Faster Composing Goofy

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“Music is about imagination. It's about thought. It's about creating something from nothing.”

Imagination Creating Music Is Creating Something

Author:Glenn Branca

“It scares me that people are going to stop writing music. I don't mean music that has to be physically written down, but they'll stop using their brain which is without a doubt the most powerful tool that you could have in any art.”

People Writing Mean Art Powerful Brain Doubt Written Tools Most Powerful Scare Writing Music

Author:Glenn Branca

“It's crucial that people are on the right measure at the right time.”

People Crucial Right Time

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“One hundred guitarists making lots of noise would not be something you'd want to listen to.”

Want Hundred Noise Guitarist

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“I'm just not arbitrarily choosing to have five guitars play one type of thing. In that way there's a definite similarity between a symphony orchestra and the 100 guitar symphony.”

Way Play Five Type Guitar Definite Orchestra Symphony Similarity Symphony Orchestras

Author:Glenn Branca

“It's a mysterious thing that a whole generation of young people can come up and see and understand things that previous generations weren't able to see or understand.”

People Whole Able Young Generations Come Up Mysterious Previous Generations Mysterious Things

Author:Glenn Branca

“I like to read. I've become obsessed with fiction. And it's too bad: I'm a musician many people love and I myself am not part of the music scene.”

People Fiction Scene Musician Obsessed

Author:Glenn Branca

“Occasionally I hear a band that blows me away. For instance, there's a musician in Oakland named Weasel Walter who has a band called the Flying Luttenbachers. Go see the Flying Luttenbachers when they're in your town. He's one of the greatest rock composers who ever lived, and he's struggling and living like a poverty-stricken hermit.”

Poverty Struggle Rocks Band Musician Towns Blow Flying Instance Composer Hermits Our Town Weasels Oakland

Author:Glenn Branca

“I started out in theatre and I definitely have wanted to add extra musical elements to my music with both imagery and text.”

Wanted Elements Add Musical Theatre Extras Imagery

Author:Glenn Branca

“I really feel instrumental music can speak - can contain tremendous amounts of information - but it's speaking to your subconscious.”

Feels Speak Information Amount Subconscious Instrumental Music

Author:Glenn Branca

“I want the music to be ambiguous. Its tone gives you a context in which to start visualizing what you're feeling with the music.”

Want Giving Feelings Tone Ambiguous Visualizing

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Born: October 6, 1948
Known for: Composer
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