“A guitar is a piece of wood, and if this piece is resonating in a period of 40 or 60 years, it kind of gets to know what it is after awhile... the reason violinists play violins that are hundreds of years old. The wood learns to sing.” IfsKnowsYearsKindReasonPlayMusicPiecesPeriodsGuitarWoodsViolinViolinistResonating Author:Dave Genn
“A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'” PowerfulMusicPiecesSentencesCompromiseMake SenseWorking ItLegislation Author:Barack Obama
“Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.” LongEndsFunnyMusicPiecesHumorousWittyPianoComposerFunny MusicFamous MusicianClassic MusicComposing MusicPiano Music Author:Igor Stravinsky
“I suppose it never occurs to these people that a man might just want to write a piece of music.” PeopleMenWantWritingSeemsMightMusicPieces Author:Ralph Vaughan Williams
“It appears to me that the subject of music, from Machaut to Boulez, has always been its construction. Melodies of 12-tone rows just don't happen. They must be constructed....To demonstrate any formal idea in music, whether structure or stricture, is a matter of construction, in which the methodology is the controlling metaphor of the composition...Only by 'unfixing' the elements traditionally used to construct a piece of music could the sounds exist in themselves--not as symbols, or memories which were memories of other music to begin with.” IdeasMatterHappensUsedSoundMemoriesMusicPiecesSubjectsElementsStructureMetaphorSymbolsToneMelodyConstructionCompositionFormalConstructsMethodology Author:Morton Feldman
“I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic.” MusicPiecesJazzArtisticMeant To BeMuseumsWere Meant To Be Author:Miles Davis
“I compose my pieces with a formula that I created myself.” MusicPiecesJazzFormulas Author:Thelonious Monk
“I never practice my guitar. From time to time I just open the case & throw in a piece of raw meat.” FunnyMusicPracticeCasesPiecesJazzGuitarMeatJazz MusicJazz MusicianRaw Meat Author:Wes Montgomery
“There is nothing like walking to get the feel of a country. A fine landscape is like a piece of music; it must be taken at the right tempo. Even a bicycle goes too fast” FeelsCountryNatureWalksMusicTakenEnvironmentPiecesFineWalkingLandscapeBicycleTempoNatural EnvironmentNature WalkWalks In NatureWalking Fast Book:The House of Europe Source: The House of Europe
“That's why I'm so passionate about making music for movies because you dive in and find the best ideas to bring tolife a collective piece of art. ... [Composing] is not a job for me. And that explains why I never stop. Even though it's tough on your body and your brain and the sacrifices you have to make, what can I do? I'm passionate about it so I never stop.” ArtIdeasBodyJobsBrainMusicPiecesSacrificeToughPassionateYour BodyCollectivesComposing Author:Alexandre Desplat
“Fonny and I just sat there... while the voices of the congregation rose and rose around us, without mercy... Teddy had the tambourine, and gave the cue to the piano player-I never got to know him: a long dark, evil-looking brother, with hands made for strangling; and with these hands he attacked the keyboard like he was beating the brains out of someone he remembered. No doubt the congregation had their memories, too, and they went to pieces. The church began to rock.” KnowsLongMadeHandsEvilVoiceChurchMemoriesDarkBrainMusicDoubtPiecesPlayerRocksBrotherMercyRoseRememberedPianoSatNo DoubtRock MusicKeyboardsCongregationTeddyStrangling Author:James A. Baldwin
“When there is a voice in a piece of music, we tend to focus on the voice. That is probably something from when we were babies and we depended on hearing our mother's voice.” MotherVoiceMusicFocusPiecesBabyHearing Author:Robert Wyatt