top of page
Quote_1.png
Gavin Bryars

"Music history has flowed under the bridges for many years."

Standard 
 Customized
"Music history has flowed under the bridges for many years."

Exlpore more History quotes

Quote_1.png
Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"The history of man is a must read poetry."

Quote_1.png
Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"You have to be there not for the fame and glory and recognition and being a page in a history book, but you have to be there because you believe your talent and ability can be applied effectively to operation of the spacecraft."

Quote_1.png
Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"The strike of the miners in Arizona was one of the most remarkable strikes in the history of the American labor movement. Its peaceful character, its successful outcome, were due to that most remarkable character, Governor Hunt."

Quote_1.png
Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"I loved psychology and I loved history."

Quote_1.png
Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility I wish the history to be natural though the sentiments are refined; and the characters to be probable, though their behaviour is excelling."

Quote_1.png
Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas."

Quote_1.png
Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"Fascism was a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place."

Quote_1.png
Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"That is a Medieval way of drawing history, in which they do not respect the law and want the rest of the world to respect the law. That's not possible."

Quote_1.png
Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"There remains, however, the hope, at least in Russia, that, as sometimes happens in history, the memory of lost alternatives will one day inspire efforts to regain them."

Quote_1.png
Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living."

Explore more quotes by Gavin Bryars

Quote_1.png
Gavin Bryars
"There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people."
Quote_1.png
Gavin Bryars
"Still, American composers working in France have had a pretty hard time."
Quote_1.png
Gavin Bryars
"I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles."
Quote_1.png
Gavin Bryars
"Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century."
Quote_1.png
Gavin Bryars
"When Philip Glass asked me if I would be interested in doing a new recording of Jesus' Blood he assumed that I would do something similar to the first version and wanted to know what other pieces would be on the same CD."
Quote_1.png
Gavin Bryars
"I've heard though that there is a younger generation of tonal French composers who are reacting with vigour."
Quote_1.png
Gavin Bryars
"People like Arvo Part would not have been taken seriously 20 years ago."
Quote_1.png
Gavin Bryars
"The academic area of new music or modern music festivals is not something which attracts me at all."
Quote_1.png
Gavin Bryars
"Like an apparently strict musical form it breaks the five minute whole into its structural parts - a descriptive preamble, the action of taking the cards, the development of the cards' manipulation and the revelation of what has been achieved."
Quote_1.png
Gavin Bryars
"As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as I had taught for a time in art colleges the idea of writing music in response to painting was not alien."
bottom of page