Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Gough

We train in the mornings, and then I go home and rest or sleep, and usually I go for a meal with Abel of a night, as we're the two with no family here, so we tend to hang around together.

Gavin Bryars

I did that as a personal journey when I was a philosophy student and working as a jazz musician, so I moved from philosphy to music.

Michael Tippett

This is something special. You can attempt to have a kind of non-living music.

Gavin Bryars

I would also like the soloist to feel happy to put it in front of the public, because in the end he's on the firing line, not me.

Richard Gough

I can cope with a smack in the face, or at least I should be able to after the number I have had. This one was just run-of-the-mill for me.

Gavin Bryars

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

Gavin Bryars

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.

Thomas Beecham

Movie music is noise... even more painful than my sciatica.

Ralph Vaughan Williams

No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right.