Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kevin Ayers

We had literary references, so we knew what we were talking about. We could quote things, talk about books we'd read; you can say something, you don't have to explain it.

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

A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.

Thomas Beecham

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

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.

Benjamin Britten

These two are not two Love has made them one Amo Ergo Sum! And by its mystery Each is no less but more.

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 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.

Fred Frith

Not necessarily in one concert, but they're all there to be used if you want to use them.

Fred Frith

Some things don't wind up sounding like you'd expect, which is just as well.

There is a lot of things to weigh up when a transfer happens, and money is a big factor.

When I was a young player, I would look at players and think, he does this well, and try and pick up good points from them, or he conducts himself well, I'll pick up on that.

Ralph Vaughan Williams

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

Ralph Vaughan Williams

I don't know whether I like it, but it is what I meant.

The fans know their football, you can't kid them.

Benjamin Britten

The restaurant is like a theatre: we do two shows a day and when you are doing Shakespeare you don't want to throw in something out of Walt Disney.

Fred Frith

It struck me as not very interesting just to take what was exactly in the film and stick it on a C.D. and put it out as a soundtrack.

I've got an opinion on everything, so I should go into management.

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.

I played as a 17-year-old with Walter Smith, who must have been about 32. So I've known Walter for 21 years.

Fred Frith

All the time signatures we used on Gravity were taken from folk music cultures, where those kinds of time signatures are quite normal.

Michael Tippett

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