“The basic difference between classical music and jazz is that in the former the music is always graver than its performance - whereas the way jazz is performed is always more important than what is being played.” WayImportantDifferencesMusicMusic IsPerformancesJazzFormerClassical MusicBeing Played Author:Andre Previn
“Music films are great, but they can never compete with a live performance. Live music is what it is. It's the whole point. You experience it in the moment.” WholeMomentsFilmMusic IsPerformancesLive PerformanceLive Music Author:Jonathan Demme
“Music is a performance and needs the audience.” NeedsMusicAudienceMusic IsPerformancesMusic Love Author:Michael Tippett
“I think one of the reasons [Nikolai] Medtner hasn't had a chance is that his music needs very, very committed performances. If you play his works passively, the juice of his music is really not going to be extracted - it's simply not going to come out.” IfsThinkingNeedsReasonPlayChanceMusic IsPerformancesCommittedJuiceChances Are Author:Marc-Andre Hamelin
“I think after music is performance because it is also an immaterial form of art, and then there's everything else.” ThinkingArtFormMusic IsPerformances Author:Igor Levit
“I've always been a huge fan of theatre and performance. The idea of just the human voice and just this night. Live music is the same. They're doing it for you right now. It's an amazing thing. And if you perform a story properly, it can be a transporting, too.” IfsHumansIdeasStoriesNightVoiceFansHugeRight NowMusic IsPerformancesTheatreAmazing ThingsHuman VoiceLive Music Author:T.C. Boyle
“I think one of the reasons I haven't been doing music is because I think that some of my performance, like, needs are being taken care of in other mediums.” ThinkingNeedsReasonCareTakenHavensMusic IsPerformancesMediums Author:Carrie Brownstein
“One of the things I love about music is live performance.” Music IsPerformancesThings I LoveLive Performance Author:Yo-Yo Ma