Robert Morris Quotes

We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself.

I hope to refine music, study it, try to find some area that I can unlock. I don't quite know how to explain it but it's there. These can't be the only notes in the world, there's got to be other notes some place, in some dimension, between the cracks on the piano keys.

Music assists him in the use of harmonic and mathematical proportion.

Music is organized sound.

A lot of music is mathematics. It's balance.

Harmony is an obscure and difficult musical science, but most difficult to those who are not acquainted with the Greek language; because it is necessary to use many Greek words to which there are none corresponding in Latin.

I suppose that's why new music and I go well together, because new music often requires maintaining great rhythm.

You can play the piano with the white keys only or you can play it with only the black keys. But for harmony you must use the black and the white keys.

Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.

Music is a science, in many ways it's mathematical.

Music is pleasing not only because of the sound but because of the silence that is in it: without the alternation of sound and silence there would be no rhythm.

Take but degree away, untune that string, and hark, what discord follows!

If you listen to a lot of the songs that are popular now, there's very little melody in there. People love the beat. But to musicians, it's melody, because we understand how elusive it is and how hard it is to hold.

There's something mathematically satisfying about music: notes fit together and harmony and all that. And mathematics has to do with abstractions and making connections.

I play piano and guitar and I do write my own stuff so to a certain extent I know what I want to do in regards to music. But I'm still finding out what kind of music is my favourite kind to listen to, never mind do myself so I've got a lot of time to find out myself and develop myself as an artist.

Sometimes I'll write without the guitar or the piano, but most of the time I'll be playing and just improvising some words. And when I get something that sounds good, a line with a story in it, I'll try and tease it out and figure out where the story is going.

I remember learning how to play 'The Fool On The Hill' on piano when I was in maybe fifth grade.

Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.

It starts with a single sound. If there's something in that sound, then it's worth continuing.

Where music leads, I follow.

I could stop and say, Well that was a D minor, G seven, but I really don't want to know that. I just want to know that there's a combination of notes that makes a sound.

There are only twelve tones and they need to be treated carefully.

I'm a composer, and therefore I know when I've written a good tune. When you've written a good song is when you know that the lyric is completely coalesced with the song.

Music is math; music is spiritual.

I love to harmonize.