Quotes by Gavin Bryars

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.

Art

College

Writing

Craft is part of the creative process.

Crafts

Creative

Process

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

Composer

Names

Writing

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

Details

Pieces

Thinking

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

Cds

Europe

Technology

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

Ensemble

Hard Times

Knows

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.

Oboes

Thinking

Writing

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

Ideas

Way

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.

Mistake

New Work

Trying

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.

Paper

Peers

Talking

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Assured

Beautiful

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College

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Crafts

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Details

Development

Different

Ensemble

Europe

Feelings

Festivals

France

Glasses

Hard Times

Ideas

Instruments

Jesus

Knows

Men

Mistake

Modern

Music

Musical

Names

New Work

Oboes

Paper

Peers

People

Pieces

Process

Running

Skills

Space

Surface

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Quotes by Gavin Bryars

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.

Craft is part of the creative process.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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