Musical Nuances Quotes

If you go to Japan for instance, you should know that they have a different way of playing Beethoven or Brahms. But if you play with them Mozart, Debussy, Mendelssohn, they have a wonderful light feeling for that.

When you have great songs that are going to live longer than the composers, everything you can do to bring those different elements and nuances out, serve the song.

You've got to know much more than the mere technicalities of notes. You've got to know sounds and what goes between the notes.

An interpretation exists because of what we find between the notes.

In schools, if you go to teach kids with less interest in music the nuances of music, they feel deviated, as it is very technical. But teaching them songs, to begin with, creates a natural desire in them to know the other country, their eating habits, the way they dress up, how they look, and other things.

The more perfect music we have, the more attractive the peculiarities and anomalies of human performance become. Perfection is a second rate idea.

Light quirks of music, broken and uneven,Make the soul dance upon a jig to Heav'n.

Richie Faulkner is very respectful to the songs that he plays from when [founding member] K.K. [Downing] was in the band. He plays them incredibly. And he's got his own nuances and his own techniques that he puts in - as he should.

We have learned to express the more delicate nuances of feeling by penetrating more deeply into the mysteries of harmony.

All music is just a collision of sounds until you know its internal conventions and understand the nuances. It's a question of familiarity.