And my father was a comic. He could play any musical instrument. He loved to perform. He was a wonderfully comedic character. He had the ability to dance and sing and charm and analyze poetry.
I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.
Instrumental music is increasingly marginalized and there's just no outlet, there's no venue for it, in terms of media.
If I think about music in the future, I imagine it often as not involving electricity, in some dystopian, post-apocalyptic future. And that's what I get from Penderecki: people making music by taking these instruments out of boxes and playing them. T...
Music would lose its charm were not dissonance interspersed at frequent intervals. The closer a composer can come to discord without actually entering it in the score, the more pleasing will be his composition when given life through musical instrume...
What I try to impart to a musician is to really try to practice the instrument in a really sincere way. Learn as much about music as you possibly can. Learn composition. Study to try to create compositions of your own and put your own personal touch ...
I absolutely think the Seattle grunge sound was instrumental to my music education.
There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.
I like to say, 'I hit every type of music in a show, and I play the people, not the instruments.'
The character of instrumental music... lets the emotions radiate and shine in their own character without presuming to display them as real or imaginary representations.
So the whole basis for jazz music is based on the fact that the bass player could not play his instrument.
In the end, a gun is an instrument to make someone surrender to your will or die, and music is exactly the opposite - it's seductive and invitational.
My mum was very good at making me take up musical instruments, so although there was no popular music she made me learn the recorder when I was three, the violin when I was five and the piano when I was seven. I took up the guitar myself when I was 1...
When I was younger, I was able to write with music playing in the background, but these days, I can't. I find it distracting. Even when the music is just instrumental or has lyrics in a language I don't understand, the clash between the voices in my ...
There are only so many letters in the alphabet. When I talk to young musicians or authors and they ask for advice, I say, 'You gotta learn all the letters of your own personal alphabet. With music, you need to know all the different kinds of music an...
My dad loved black singers. So listening to New Orleans music, eventually I wanted to play an instrument.
Music is one of the most forceful instruments for governing the mind and spirit of man.
I particularly enjoy cello music because our daughter plays the cello. I have listened to her practice for so many hours that I am familiar with the music written for that instrument. I am also fond of the popular music of the 1930s because my future...
How can you understand the language of music, if you will not be an instrument?”—Zarost
The people who really got me off were dealing with the musical potential of the Instrument.
My dad was a bass player in a Latino band when I was growing up. So we always had musical instruments in our basement.
