Andres Segovia Quotes

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.

The hardest of all the arts to speak of is music, because music has no meaning to speak of.

The creative process of composing music has always fascinated me.

I try to get a degree of realism in my music.

Everyone who makes music is a good collaborator at their foundation because in order to make music, you have to connect to it in a way that other people can't.

Piano should be the one. Yeah, because that's your basis. Everything is right there in front of you.

There's many, many ways to write a song. But generally, sitting down at a table and writing is not one of them.

I'm an intuitive musician. I have no real technical skills. I can only play six chords on the guitar.

The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes.

Trying to describe something musical is like dancing to architecture, it's really difficult.

Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.

As a guitar player, it's harder for me to impress somebody than it is to write a song that they like.

Many, many composers have only found their way to a certain form, through familiarizing themselves with texts.

The creative part for me is making songs, and that's what I really love the most, and that's what I've always done for every band I've ever had.

Music is a reservoir... of sounds.

The relation between practical and spiritual spheres in music is obvious, if only because it demands ears, finger, consciousness and intellect.

I look upon myself as a musical bricklayer with architectural aspirations.

I think musically.

I play guitar all the time, and I'm constantly thinking of songs... Every time I pick up a guitar, I come up with different riffs, all different bands I've been in. Sometimes there is a song or riff that could only belong with Slipknot, and I just can't use it for anything else, regardless of whatever happened.

I am so highly skilled that when I pick up a phrase and then pick up my guitar, a form comes out almost immediately - a song - and once I start, I have to finish it.

I try to, at least, think very melodically, and my band forces me to think very melodically.

I don't think you can have a calculated approach towards learning music.

I can't play an instrument to save my life. But when I'm creating, and when I'm making music, I feel like I'm the head of the orchestra, and I'm just waving my wand, and something is created.

Musicians are also interpretive artists and we are just as creative as painters and writers. We interpret in a way that expresses ourselves.

Just like using an instrument, a song calls for different things.