Musical Forms Quotes

We all love musical architecture; there's no doubt about that.

We talk too much of black art when we should be talking about art, just art. Black composers must be free to write rondos and fugues, not only protest songs.

I'd spent a year and a half without a record deal and had been doing a lot of soul-searching, a lot of self-examination and a lot of experimentation in other musical forms.

Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century.

I combine aspects of many styles of music and create my own musical forms by way of electronic instruments.

The word music is a convenient way to talk about what I'm interested in, but actually, in some ways, it's a limitation.

Have we not all about us forms of a musical expression which we can take and purify and raise to the level of great art?.

All roads for me lead back to Mozart. In his tragically short life, he breathed new life, fire and meaning into every form of music that existed in his time.

Western, jazz, folk, or tribal music, whatever the form, they all have the same sapta swaras as the basis.

And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition.

One thing he discovered with a great deal of astonishment was that music held for him more then just pleasure. There was meat to it. The grouping of sounds, their forms in the air as they rang out and faded, said something comforting to him about the rule of Creation. What the music said was that there is a right way for things to be ordered so that life might not always be just tangle and drift, but have a shape, an aim. It was a powerful argument that life did not just happen.

Abolishing the book is like abolishing the symphony, or sonata form, or the sonnet, or the wall painting.

Traditional musical forms like 'Parai Isai' and 'Villupattu' are unique, and they need to be protected and nurtured.

When I write lyrics, I really do go into an automatic folk appropriation mode... I see the vernacular register of 20th century song as being a bunch of forms to adapt and reconfigure.

'Amores Perros' is rock, '21 Grams' is jazz, 'Babel' is an opera, and 'Biutiful' is a requiem.