Top 35 Paul Lansky Quotes
#1. Do you want to be right, or do you want to be happy? Forgive yourself and stop punishing yourself.
Louise Hay
#2. The real message of the Dance opens up the vistas of life to all who have the urge to express beauty with no other instrument than their own bodies, with no apparatus and no dependence on anything other than space.
Ruth St. Denis
#3. If the music has a logic of its own - as I think my music has - an open-minded listener will apprehend and understand.
Paul Lansky
#4. I think of myself as an experimentalist even though much of my music sounds logical and normal, in a sense.
Paul Lansky
#5. With a piece of classical music by Haydn, Mozart, or Beethoven, on first listening I'm referencing it with other pieces by them that I know. I think that most people do this - they listen to pieces through the filter of pieces they already know.
Paul Lansky
#6. The experimentation that I do has a lot to do with tunes and pitches and ways that melodies are put together.
Paul Lansky
#7. I don't think of my music as being about something.
Paul Lansky
#8. I don't think there's something that you have to 'get' with my music. It tends toward the dramatic side rather than the narrative.
Paul Lansky
#9. I think you'll find a significant number of people who decide not to enter competitions because their music just won't fit in that world.
Paul Lansky
#10. I've had a lot of fun writing percussion music. It feels quite similar to writing computer music. But I found myself in the role of choreographer in a way, worrying about physical movement and such.
Paul Lansky
#11. It's very interesting for me to listen to music with my wife. She's not a musician but she very often makes comments about pieces in ways that are similar to what I'm thinking.
Paul Lansky
#12. When you have performers, there's the uniqueness of live performance and what performers do in concerts.
Paul Lansky
#13. Traditional communication design and the digital revolution will certainly blend and integrate, as clients' communications needs rarely involve just one medium.
Katherine McCoy
#14. Even today, I notice that some of my pieces are explicitly tonal; there are actually tonics and dominants. And then there are pieces that are not tonal. I tend to think that there's a dichotomy that has to do with the way pitches are structured.
Paul Lansky
#15. I've been really fortunate to have Bridge Records interested in publishing my music for the past 25 years. Most of my music is available in their catalog.
Paul Lansky
#16. Very often, when you're listening to a piece for the first time, you're listening through a model of other pieces that you know. At a certain point, a piece becomes idiosyncratic and you start to understand it on its own terms.
Paul Lansky
#17. She compares the deepest wells of depression to gestation, to a time enclosed, a secluded lightlessness in which, unknown and unforced, we grow.
Louise Erdrich
#18. I came up in the '60s; that was a time when there was a revolution going on in music. Stravinsky had become a twelve-tone composer; even Aaron Copland was writing twelve-tone pieces at that time!
Paul Lansky
#19. My perspective on the academic world is very favorable. I did certain kinds of things that I could never have done otherwise.
Paul Lansky
#20. Man started out on the wrong foot. The misadventure in paradise was the first consequence. The rest had to follow.
Emile M. Cioran
#21. I wrote a lot of software to do various kinds of special things, and I loved the idea of composing pieces in an electronic studio.
Paul Lansky
#22. I was very fortunate to be at a wealthy institution. I do recognize the drawbacks and limitations of the academic world but it's basically the world I grew up in and there's no way in which I would have been able to survive in the so-called real world.
Paul Lansky
#24. I had been creating music on tape that was to be listened to as a recording, rather than through performance.
Paul Lansky
#25. I found myself recycling ideas and I saw that I had to invent reasons to compose a piece rather than start from some exciting idea.
Paul Lansky
#26. I noticed things in my computer music that were getting old, and I started to figure out that this has to do with the way the listener interacts with music.
Paul Lansky
#27. I never thought that I would write orchestra music, but in fact I did write a group of orchestra pieces.
Paul Lansky
#28. I think of myself as experimenting with different ways of structuring pieces. A lot of it has to do with the computer, of course.
Paul Lansky
#29. [I will] totally dismantle every intelligence agency in this country piece by piece, nail by nail, brick by brick
Ron Dellums
#30. Nothing indicates the soundness of a man's judgment so much as knowing how to choose between two disadvantages.
Jean Francois Paul De Gondi
#31. Sometimes I imagine that there's a binary division going on in contemporary practice that has to do with chromatic versus diatonic. I notice that I tend to listen in a diatonic sense, that I register a pitch as a member of a diatonic scale, even in a non-tonal context.
Paul Lansky
#32. It's always a thrill for me to see new versions of my pieces on YouTube.
Paul Lansky
#33. I have no interest in being famous. I just want to make famous photographs.
David LaChapelle
#34. I didn't want my music to be seen as examples of an electronic culture; I just wanted them to be thought of as pieces of music.
Paul Lansky
#35. It was a maxim with Foxey- our revered father, gentlemen - 'Always suspect everybody.
Charles Dickens
