Those moments right before we invaded, I wish that I could have done something. But...
Musical ideas sprang to my mind like a flight of butterflies, and all I had to do was to stretch out my hand to catch them.
Some are blessed with musical ability, others with good looks. Myself, I was blessed with modesty.
I wrote to Tim Rice about making a musical about an English madam. He wrote back and said that he thought it was a brilliant idea, but he's too busy.
Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world.
It's a funny thing, but when people talk about jazz piano nowadays they seem to overlook Earl, and I don't know why, because he had perfect musical taste.
I was a real musical prick, I really was.
You know, and it really doesn't have a lot to do with the movie. That's the trick to doing a good musical is that, if you take that music number out, there's less to the movie there. You would miss...
No, writing musicals is the hardest thing in the world. And it was really funny, because I remember when the South Park movie came out, there were some critics that said, well it's obvious that in...
My favorite musical. I don't. It changes all the time. I'm just a diehard, I'm totally old school, like I'll sit and watch, if they are re-doing Oklahoma in New York, I will be the first one there.
Actually John, Paul Rutherford, and Trevor Watts, and several other rather well known English jazz musicians had got their training by joining the Air Force, which was a pretty standard way for...
I'm always looking for a kind of new musical entity to sort of move into a motion picture venue.
If a melody sounds familiar, I know enough musical theory to head to another place.
I think you should make more movies, more musicals. I think the public deserves that. I think this country deserves to be able to get out and foster that talent. Give them an opportunity to become...
When the Domaine Musical started up, I wasn't part of it. They were the major players in contemporary music at that time, braodcasting old and new composers' work. And I wasn't one of them.
What interested me was looping the events in such a way that each time they reappeared, they created new musical objects. The idea of tautology.
Stockhausen was a great guy, very rich in terms of musical imagination, all the different aspects of sound creation rolled into one extraordinary intuition. With a strict intention to be serial,...
No, the great musical encounter was with Cage, who exploded all those ideas which were already starting to get a bit institutionalised.
I had a Nagra, one of the first portable machines. I started collecting sounds without any preconceived notions other than a desire to insert into musical discourse a sound that basically didn't...
I approach my work musically a lot in terms of the way maybe a jazz musician would approach an improvisation on a theme.
When you hear someone from the very north of Scotland speaking, I think its nice, very musical and harmonious.