Quotes About Minimalist Music

#1. When I say that there's commonality, I mean more in terms of the sort of techniques by which we perceive Baroque and minimalist music rather than the techniques used to compose them. I know that's being sort of overly complicated.

Mahan Esfahani

#2. A king had best know the names of his enemies, don't you think?

George R R Martin

#3. If there's one thing I'm not going to apologise for as the leader of the Liberal Democrats in government after 60 or 70 years of being out of government, it's that you just cannot avoid but deal with the world the way it is.

Nick Clegg

#4. I love playing instruments that I don't know how to play or am not familiar with. I like the idea of danger and innocence that comes from it. As an artist, I feel I should be able to do something with anything I get my hands on. The music becomes minimalist because of my limited knowledge.

Gustavo Santaolalla

#5. I never feel that my music is sparse or minimalist; the way fat people never really think they're fat. I certainly don't consider myself minimalist at all.

Morton Feldman

#6. She likes the people with the endurance to tolerate the drudge, the ones who know that pain is a requirement, not a curse.

Colum McCann

#7. It's meant to reaffirm the validity of that music - clean, minimalist, honest, classic music.

Dwight Yoakam

#8. It's very complicated. There's been this broader mechanism, an industry, which wants people to use free services, from the old days of advertising-supported papers and magazines, to ad-supported free television.

Astra Taylor

#9. [Reality] isn't simply the so-called world that you're in. Your reality is a much larger one that takes in all matter of identification and desires and hopes.

Lynne Tillman

#10. What your mind masters,
it will subdue.
What your heart masters,
it will overwhelm.
What you soul masters,
it will conquer.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#11. Christ is born into the world through each of us.

Marianne Williamson

#12. Cute girls and burgers. What more can you ask for? That's why we live in America.

H. Jon Benjamin

#13. 'The Beatles' did whatever they wanted. They were a collection of influences adapted to songs they wanted to write. George Harrison was instrumental in bringing in Indian music. Paul McCartney was a huge Little Richard fan. John Lennon was into minimalist aggressive rock.

Chris Cornell

#14. Rome is a city where in every corner you have a reminder of the sacred world. That's why I have sacred music, minimalist sacred music, which is also music I like, because at the end of the day, that's what I want to do.

Paolo Sorrentino

#15. I want to change things with everything I do, not for the sake of changing things, but for the sake of taking greater and greater risks, or how minimalist I might be able to be, or how I can involve elements or ingredients in music videos that are not musical, for instance.

Jonathan Glazer