“Basically, you're still sitting there using just the muscles of your hand, really. Of one hand, actually. It's another example of the transfer of literacy to making music because the assumption is that everything important is happening in your head; the muscles are there simply to serve the head. But that isn't how traditional players work at all; musicians know that their muscles have a lot of stuff going on as well. They're using their whole body to make music, in fact.” KnowsWellsStillsImportantWholeFactsBodyHandsStuffPlayerExampleMusicianMusic IsHappeningsSittingTraditionalAssumptionMusclesLiteracyTransfers Author:Brian Eno
“We're dealing with music that is being played by traditional instruments in a specifically built building called a concert hall. But classical is not - the reference is wrong, because classical on one hand refers to one period in musical history, which is Mozart, Hayden, Beethoven, which is a fine period in musical history, but it was a while ago.On the other hand, it sort of alludes to some kind of "class," which A, is not true; B, is kind of detrimental to the whole idea. Because the point is that this music is available and it's actually relatively reasonably priced.” KindIdeasWholeHandsClassBuildingFinePeriodsMusic IsBuiltInstrumentsMusicalAvailableTraditionalHallsConcertsDetrimentalBeing Played Author:Esa-Pekka Salonen
“I am more and more convinced that music is not, in essence, a thing which can be cast into a traditional and fixed form. It is made up of colors and rhythms.” MadeFormColorMusic IsEssenceCastsConvincedTraditionalRhythmFixed Author:Claude Debussy
“A lot of English traditional music is guesswork anyway, so it's very difficult for people to be vehemently opposed to experimenting with it.” PeopleDifficultMusic IsTraditionalGuessworkTraditional Music Author:John Spiers
“I like traditional music. I listen to a lot of it. There is no particular reason to present these recordings. I love what I do so I find ways to keep doing what I love. Music is certainly not all that interests me. I hear things my own way and I present them. Sound is inspiring and I can be quite obssessive with certain sounds.” WayI CanReasonCertainSoundInterestMy OwnParticularMusic IsTraditionalMusic LoveI Love MusicTraditional Music Author:Alan Bishop
“As the voices beneath the music are talking, you find that the music is just as important as what they're saying. The traditional thing is to lower the music so you can hear the dialogue. We just couldn't do that for that song.” ImportantSongVoiceTalkingMusic IsDialogueTraditional Author:Stanley Nelson Jr.
“Traditional folk music is about survival of the fittest song just like evolution is about survival of the fittest organism and generally the more times a song has been passed down the generations the more brilliant and concise it becomes as every link in that chain can add something good or remove something unnecessary.” Has BeensSongGenerationsEvolutionSurvivalMusic IsAddFolksBrilliantTraditionalChainsRemoveMore TimeLinksUnnecessaryOrganismsFolk MusicSurvival Of The FittestConcise Author:John Spiers