Quotes by Gavin Bryars

About Gavin Bryars:

Richard Gavin Bryars is an English composer and double bassist. He has been active in, or has produced works in, a variety of styles of music, including jazz, free improvisation, minimalism, historicism, experimental music, avant-garde and neoclassicism.
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The academic area of new music or modern music festivals is not something which attracts me at all.

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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.

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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

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.

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Author Bio

  • NameGavin Bryars
  • DescriptionBritish musician
  • BornJanuary 16, 1943
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionComposer; Musicologist
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