Shekhar Kapur Quotes

Life is that perfect fine line between ironies.

If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.

So, you can set up an orchestra down this end of the railway station playing one particular area, and simultaneously at the other end something completely different going on. And in the middle they meet, or not, depending.

I'm fascinated by the yin and yang of everything.

Most people go, I wish for world peace. But chaos has a place in balancing out the light and the dark in the world. I don't know if I would wish for world peace.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

The piano and the singing are two equal things to me - maybe not inseparable but very connected. You can say they are like two equal voices.

If Bill jumps into something that relies on a lot of cymbals, I'll jump into something that relies on a lot of skin sounds; if he goes into metal tones, I'll go into wood, and so on. I basically play in his holes.

Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.

If you love large, you've got to hurt large. If you've got a lot of light, you've probably got an equal amount of darkness.

And I've also come to the conclusion that, as far as guitar solos and things like that are concerned, it's more important to complement the music rather than take away from it.

Interplay and interaction are the integral parts of music - they're as important as the notes.

The Third Quartet I made the instruments in pairs - Two different pairs - Violin and viola, and violin and cello. They played very different things from each other all through the whole piece.

Balance is key. Balance is a virtue. Balance is next to godliness, maybe. We should all aspire to better balance. Too much of what is said in this world is one-sided, and we need more balance - in our speech, in our music, in our art, in everything.

Counterpoint is difficult. I have been doing it since the beginning of my career. But it is not just taking any opposite. It is finding the right opposite.

Wagner is contrapuntal in a philosophical way as well as a musical way. What I mean by that is that every tendency has its opposite, and you see that in the man himself. He's a metaphysical hermaphrodite - he embraces hard and soft, masculine and feminine.

As a reader and a writer, I'm happiest when apparently mutually exclusive states can somehow coexist.

In life, there's a ying and a yang and a balance. And when you don't have balance, you have comedy.

There is nothing more beautiful for a musician to listen and see harmony.

Anything that's resolvable is boring, musically. And if it's too chaotic, you don't feel tension; it's chaos.

That's been a huge recurring thing in growing up - allowing two things to exist in the same space even though, instinctively, they might not be designated to.

I think there's a yin and a yang to everything.

My aim is to be as open and as incomprehensible as possible. There has to be a perfect balance between open and shut.

If you take the yin-yang, it has a piece of the other inside itself. You can't be too much of one thing and be balanced.

He who tip-toes cannot stand; he who strides cannot walk.