Top 40 Bryars Gavin Quotes
#1. That's a difficult question, because to consider yourself a rebel is sort of ridiculous.
Shirley Manson
#2. Discipleship never consists in this or that specific action: it is always a decision, either for or against Jesus Christ.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#3. I've heard though that there is a younger generation of tonal French composers who are reacting with vigour.
Gavin Bryars
#4. Music history has flowed under the bridges for many years.
Gavin Bryars
#5. It's not what a person says but what he does that reveals his true character.
Philip Jose Farmer
#6. Still, American composers working in France have had a pretty hard time.
Gavin Bryars
#7. 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.
Gavin Bryars
#8. I am writing something which I find satisfying and which I am prepared to put my name to as a composer.
Gavin Bryars
#9. Had been equally obvious. The new aristocracy was made up for the most part of bureaucrats, scientists, technicians, trade-union organisers, publicity experts, sociologists, teachers, journalists and professional politicians. These people, whose origins
George Orwell
#10. The reality is I was never in control. God is. What I am learning is I can only control how I respond to whatever happens. I'm learning that I can forgive beyond just saying it and smiling. I'm learning that I can coexist with things that don't agree with my way.
Kenn Bivins
#11. There was not much one could do; he decided at least to be good.
Graham Greene
#12. There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people.
Gavin Bryars
#13. 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.
Gavin Bryars
#14. Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century.
Gavin Bryars
#15. Patience is the strength of the weak, impatience is the weakness of the strong.
Immanuel Kant
#16. I currently spend a lot of time thinking about orchestration and every detail of a piece.
Gavin Bryars
#17. Similarly you can make a transition from one set of instruments to another imperceptibly.
Gavin Bryars
#18. Over the years I have tried to develop something which is technically assured.
Gavin Bryars
#19. I work very fast, keeping the ideas flowing but making sure they come out the way I intended.
Gavin Bryars
#20. 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.
Gavin Bryars
#21. As soon as you make some films that people like, you'll be sent material, and that can come from anywhere.
Lenny Abrahamson
#22. I have a really supportive family, which is really wonderful, but I'm not forcing everyone to watch my work every week.
Mickey Sumner
#23. 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
#24. Amelia tried to imagine it, lying undefended on the hard ground, at the mercy of every creature that crawled, crept, or flew. "I don't think I could fall asleep that way."
She felt his hand playing slowly in the loose locks of her hair. "You could." His voice was soft. "I would help you.
Lisa Kleypas
#25. People like Arvo Part would not have been taken seriously 20 years ago.
Gavin Bryars
#26. I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
Gavin Bryars
#27. Like an apparently strict musical form it breaks the five minute whole into its structural parts - a descriptive preamble, the action of taking the cards, the development of the cards' manipulation and the revelation of what has been achieved.
Gavin Bryars
#29. A woman's friendship borders more closely on love than man's. Men affect each other in the reflection of noble or friendly acts; whilst women ask fewer proofs and more signs and expressions of attachment.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#30. The academic area of new music or modern music festivals is not something which attracts me at all.
Gavin Bryars
#31. 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
#32. Achievers must not be penalized or parasites rewarded if we aspire to a healthy, productive, and ethical society.
William E. Simon
#33. I have friends who have a CD mastering plant in Hollywood and they are very sceptical about European record labels' understanding of digital technology.
Gavin Bryars
#34. The most beautiful thing I have ever seen in a movie theatre is to go down to the front and turn around, and look at all the uplifted faces, the light from the screen reflected upon them.
Francois Truffaut
#35. When Philip Glass asked me if I would be interested in doing a new recording of Jesus' Blood he assumed that I would do something similar to the first version and wanted to know what other pieces would be on the same CD.
Gavin Bryars
#36. What was once underground is now coming to the surface.
Gavin Bryars
#37. One thing I'm doing on the new Titanic recording is actually bringing in different acoustic spaces.
Gavin Bryars
#38. 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.
Gavin Bryars
#39. The great corporations of this country were not founded by ordinary people. They were founded by people with extraordinary intelligence, ambition, and aggressiveness.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
#40. I joke that being a university president is akin to being a pinata. But there are also notions of redemption.
Gordon Gee
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