Abel Korzeniowski Quotes

I sometimes ponder on variation form and it seems to me it ought to be more restrained, purer.

When I think of Morricone, more than his using a specific instrument or a specific sound, it's his way of approaching music that sticks out.

Too many notes

As a songwriter, simplicity - what not to do, what not to play - can be the hardest thing to achieve.

I'm a minimalist at heart. If a song doesn't need a solo, I'm not going to force one into it.

Never say more than is necessary.

If I get a song - a good song - I just sing it the way I hear it in my head. If anybody else wanted to add whistles and bells and chains rattling, that's fine. Just not too much. I actually just do things as straight ahead as possible.

I usually go with the 'less is more' approach.

So much of artistic creation is just exclusion. It's not creating things; it's just excluding things that really aren't going to be helpful.

Simple goes a long way.

It's amazing to me how often the answer to making something sound better is to play something less.

I always think less is more.

You want to say as little as you can and get the most punch out of it, always with the knowledge that people are not in the theater to listen to your music so much as to respond to the movie. You're a part of that experience.

Sometimes I think albums are so ambitious, they don't stand as bodies of work because you try to achieve so much, and sometimes we need to do less. Say less.

I like to have space between the notes. I like to use silence.

Sometimes I feel people try to be too complex. Some of the greatest songs are so simple. The simplest phrases.

I've come to realize ways of making music without being excessive.

I've always wanted to go into film scoring.

I'm big on simplicity. I'm not too much on all the extra instruments.

What makes that song, I think, is how stark it is.

I understand what something short should be like. I understand beauty in that form. If I start extending, somehow I kind of lose my bearings.

The more sparingly we make use of nonsense, the better.

I am a minimalist. I like saying the most with the least.

To be simple is no small matter.

The sign of a mature musician is knowing what not to play.