Damien Chazelle Quotes

I love Mozart, but I often make a terrible hash of it.

The value of music is to be able to play one note at the right time in the right way.

A good interpreter can take a piece of bad music and make it sound pretty decent, while a bad interpreter can take good music and make it sound cheap. I can tell that some people have a bad taste, and unlike on the piano, they smear around a lot, that is bad taste.

All you have to do is play one note. But it needs to be the right note.

I've never understood people who play up the artifice of music.

It's really hard for me to sing and play bass.

Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument - learning to do your craft - that's the most important thing! It's not about what goes on in a computer!

To me, the biggest notes and the longest notes are the easiest notes.

No one should be allowed to make music as if he were made of wood. One must reproduce the musical text exactly, but not play like a stone.

Music has nothing to do with your technical ability.

I don't think I could have ever had a career as a pianist because I never ever wanted to play the notes the way they were written, I was too sloppy to learn them quite right.

You've got to learn your instrument. Then, you practice, practice, practice. And then, when you finally get up there on the bandstand, forget all that and just wail.

Good taste - that's all you really need when you're playing an instrument.

It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.

I don't think so, in so far as I always aspired to play the way I do now but just couldn't get the sounds out always due to technical limitations - now I can pretty much play what I hear in realtime.

The real architecture happens within the works themselves, and that was done by the composer. That's where the real skill is. In putting together a program, you're more a curator, but that's important as well. And then the interpreting of it is where our big job is.

I know I'm not musically talented.

I am an interpreter of music rather than a composer of it.

Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.

I just sit down at the piano and rattle it off.

I play the real instruments. I don't waste my time with anything else.

If you watch me for a long time, you'll really understand and appreciate the way I play.

I play in tune like a cello player and use legitimate vibrato. There are no tricks; it's just all in the hands!

I know what my taste is, and I do like my touch on the piano.

I can't play piano well enough without making mistakes.