Bryars Gavin Quotes & Sayings

I have friends who have a CD mastering plant in Hollywood and they are very sceptical about European record labels' understanding of digital technology. — Gavin Bryars

Similarly you can make a transition from one set of instruments to another imperceptibly. — Gavin Bryars

I was right, I knew I was, but it won't do me any good to say it. I enjoy my victory silently; I take pleasure in it almost as much as in his touch. — Paula Hawkins

If the Pink Floyd and hashish expand my mind much more,
I'm going to need a larger head! — Sienna McQuillen

The project which we developed, however, was for a sound piece and I was initially curious that a sculptor should be interested in working with a musician, especially on a project for radio. — Gavin Bryars

I like to do projects in which you can see statistical results. I am very happy for all these small children, who have been the biggest group of victims of iodine deficiency. — Anatoly Karpov

Help me....Hellmouth, oh where art thou, hellmouth? Why have you forsaken me in my hour of desperation? Open quick and I'll throw myself in. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

For some reason a nation feels as shy about admitting that it ever went forth to war for the sake of more wealth as a man would about admitting that he had accepted an invitation just for the sake of the food. This is one of humanity's most profound imbecilities, as perhaps the only justification for asking one's fellowmen to endure the horrors of war would be the knowledge that if they did not fight they would starve. — Rebecca West

I am writing something which I find satisfying and which I am prepared to put my name to as a composer. — Gavin Bryars

I realized, that the life of a musician, even of a very lucky, very successful musician, wasn't really the life I wanted: I hate travel, I hate living out of suitcases, I hate the constant anxiety of being on stage. — Garth Greenwell

I forget them after I kill them,' he replied carelessly. When — J.M. Barrie

The virtuoso element in jazz playing, all those very fast runs in the upper extremes, simply doesn't appeal to me. That's why I don't want to make my concerto "virtuosic" in the sense of a technical show-off. I want a beautiful sound and a melodic and lyrical line. I am more interested in the way someone can play musically. — Gavin Bryars

If you have a Stradivarius and nobody to play it, it's just a Stradivarius. Or is it even that? It's nothing. — Peabo Bryson

I remember once, when I started writing for the alto saxophone, a saxophonist told me to think of it as being like a cross between an oboe and a viola, but louder. — Gavin Bryars

It makes sense to invest in new work. It's almost like having a research department in a scientific laboratory. You have to try things out. You'll make some bad mistakes. Some things will fail but at least you'll energise the organisation. — Gavin Bryars

I work very fast, keeping the ideas flowing but making sure they come out the way I intended. — Gavin Bryars

Over the years I have tried to develop something which is technically assured. — Gavin Bryars

The music of Gavin Bryars falls under no category. It is mongrel, full of sensuality and wit and is deeply moving. He is one of the few composers who can put slapstick and primal emotion alongside each other. He allows you to witness new wonders in the sounds around you by approaching them from a completely new angle. With a third ear maybe. — Michael Ondaatje

Somehow in the 20th Century an idea has developed that music is an activity or skill which is not comprehensible to the man in the street. This is an arrogant assertion and not necessarily a true one. — Gavin Bryars

One thing I'm doing on the new Titanic recording is actually bringing in different acoustic spaces. — Gavin Bryars

There is no effect more disproportionate to its cause than the happiness bestowed by a small compliment. — Robert Breault

When Philip Glass asked me if I would be interested in doing a new recording of Jesus' Blood he assumed that I would do something similar to the first version and wanted to know what other pieces would be on the same CD. — Gavin Bryars

I really love the idea of the poetically mad - the character that is imbued with the romantic madness. Like River from 'Firefly' or Drusilla from 'Buffy.' Someone dangerously unhinged, where you're really not sure they're going to be reliable minute-to-minute. — Holly Black

What was once underground is now coming to the surface. — Gavin Bryars

There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people. — Gavin Bryars

As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as I had taught for a time in art colleges the idea of writing music in response to painting was not alien. — Gavin Bryars

I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles. — Gavin Bryars

Still, American composers working in France have had a pretty hard time. — Gavin Bryars

Music history has flowed under the bridges for many years. — Gavin Bryars

I currently spend a lot of time thinking about orchestration and every detail of a piece. — Gavin Bryars

Craft is part of the creative process. — Gavin Bryars

Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century. — Gavin Bryars

I've heard though that there is a younger generation of tonal French composers who are reacting with vigour. — Gavin Bryars

Like an apparently strict musical form it breaks the five minute whole into its structural parts - a descriptive preamble, the action of taking the cards, the development of the cards' manipulation and the revelation of what has been achieved. — Gavin Bryars

It's rather like attending a university seminar where you are talking to a few gifted specialists who deliver a paper to an audience of their peers. That's one way of making music. — Gavin Bryars

People like Arvo Part would not have been taken seriously 20 years ago. — Gavin Bryars

got very nasty.' 'People mean well, but they can be so tactless sometimes,' Doreen — Lesley Pearse

The academic area of new music or modern music festivals is not something which attracts me at all. — Gavin Bryars