37 Quotes by 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.

The academic area of new music or modern music festivals is not something which attracts me at all.

Music history has flowed under the bridges for many years.

It's rather like attending a university seminar where you are talking to a few gifted specialists who deliver a paper to an audience of their peers. That's one way of making music.

What was once underground is now coming to the surface.

I remember once, when I started writing for the alto saxophone, a saxophonist told me to think of it as being like a cross between an oboe and a viola, but louder.

There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people.

I am writing something which I find satisfying and which I am prepared to put my name to as a composer.

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.