37 Quotes by Gavin Bryars

People like Arvo Part would not have been taken seriously 20 years ago.

Still, American composers working in France have had a pretty hard time.

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

I have friends who have a CD mastering plant in Hollywood and they are very sceptical about European record labels' understanding of digital technology.

Somehow in the 20th Century an idea has developed that music is an activity or skill which is not comprehensible to the man in the street. This is an arrogant assertion and not necessarily a true one.

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.

Philips did stipulate that Julian and I had to iron out our relationship. I had to could come up with something we would both be happy with.

I would also like the soloist to feel happy to put it in front of the public, because in the end he's on the firing line, not me.

I did that as a personal journey when I was a philosophy student and working as a jazz musician, so I moved from philosphy to music.