Quotes by Musical In every interview I've got to explain something about being white but still being into hip hop. It's gone way beyond the musical aspect of the business. And I'm as critical about music as everybody else is. Brian Austin Green hip-hop musical white I'm always looking for a kind of new musical entity to sort of move into a motion picture venue Brian De Palma musical kind moving Everyone was so anti-wanting to be anything else. I guess a lot of bands say that but I think, for us, that notion - combined with our musical influences - ended up making us uncategorizable. Brian Degraw influence musical thinking There are certain sounds that I've found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not so much musical as spatial: they define the edges of the territory of the music. Brian Eno territory musical sound If you had a sign above every studio door saying ‘This Studio is a Musical Instrument’ it would make such a different approach to recording. Brian Eno musical different doors I believe in singing. I believe in singing together. Brian Eno singing musical believe I don't want to do free jazz! Because free jazz - which is the musical equivalent of free marketeering - isn't actually free at all. It's just constrained by what your muscles can do. Brian Eno free-jazz musical want We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces, which represent 30% of our musical experience. Brian Eno musical space writing One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn't if you knew better. Brian Eno musical interesting moving In fact, quite a lot of what I do has to do with sound texture, and, you can't notate that. You can't notate the sound of "St. Elmo's Fire." There's no way of writing that down. That's because musical notation arose at a time when sound textures were limited. If you said violins and woodwind that defined the sound texture; if I say synthesizer and guitar it means nothing - you're talking about 28,000 variables. Brian Eno musical writing mean Another way of working is setting deliberate constraints that aren't musical ones - like saying, "Well, this piece is going to be three minutes and nineteen seconds long and it's going to have changes here, here and here, and there's going to be a convolution of events here, and there's going to be a very fast rhythm here with a very slow moving part over the top of it." Those are the sort of visual ideas that I can draw out on graph paper. I've done a lot of film music this way. Brian Eno musical long moving There is a sort of convergence starting to happen between the computer and musical instruments, but it's still quite a long way off. Brian Eno musical long way The Western musical canon came about not merely by accumulation, but by opposition and subversion, both to the ruling powers on whom composers depended for their livelihoods and to other musics. Brian Ferneyhough ruling accumulation musical I frequently compose out the entire metric structure of a piece in modified cyclic form, where each cyclic revolution undergoes some form of 'variation' much as if measure lengths were concrete musical 'material.' Brian Ferneyhough gmos variation musical The beauty of string theory is the metaphor kind of really comes very close to the reality. The strings of string theory are vibrating the particles, vibrating the forces of nature into existence, those vibrations are sort of like musical notes. So string theory, if it's correct, would be playing out the score of the universe. Brian Greene musical would-be reality J.S. Bach was easily the greatest musical innovator in the history of the world. He was so advanced for his time. There's a spiritual depth to his music. You can listen to it and it's like meditation. Brian Wilson musical meditation spiritual I just always wanted to be an actor. I don't remember ever not wanting to be an actor. I did a lot of musical theater when I was younger, and I really hope to get back there someday. Bridget Regan musical actors remember Once you get into the book, you've got to constantly find your - the rhythm of your prose. And it ends up being quite a musical experience either way. Bruce Springsteen musical book way Roy Orbison is singing for the lonely, hey, that's me and I want you only. Bruce Springsteen singing musical lonely I was in my late 20s, in the process of shaping my musical outlook and what I wanted it to be about, when I first encountered Woody Guthrie. Bruce Springsteen woody musical firsts «345678910111213»