#music

Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You're glad someone's done it but you don't necessarily want to listen to it. ↗

— Brian Eno

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At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art. ↗

— Brian Eno

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Even though I'm known as a pop musician, I have a seriousness about what I do. ↗

— Brian Eno

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I don't want to do free jazz! Because free jazz - which is the musical equivalent of free marketeering - isn't actually free at all. It's just constrained by what your muscles can do. ↗

— Brian Eno

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I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth. ↗

— Brian Eno

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But I'm not adverse to the idea of Torch Song as a musical. It would just be different. Because the play will always be there exactly as it was, and in a musical you could tell a lot of the story through songs. ↗

— Harvey Fierstein

#always #be different #because #could #different

There's a sadness to the human condition that I think music is good for. It gives a counterpoint to the visual beauty, and adds depth to pictures that they wouldn't have if the music wasn't there. ↗

— Mike Figgis

#beauty #condition #counterpoint #depth #gives

The best rock musicians are the most exciting people in the world. ↗

— James Daly

#exciting #most #musicians #people #rock

It's amazing how fast generations lose sight of other generations. One of the first things the young composers who come to work with me say is that they want to write music people will like, instead of gaining their credentials by being rejected by the audience. ↗

— Carlisle Floyd

#audience #being #come #composers #credentials

What is American music? The most satisfying answer I've come across is that it was a kind of natural comfort with the vernacular which is diverse and regional; it's not one particular set of sounds. ↗

— Carlisle Floyd

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