I never presumed that a technique of composition or an idea was so special that just using it would guarantee the quality of the music.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If we look at music history closely, it is not difficult to isolate certain elements of great potency which were to nourish the art of music for decades, if not centuries.
That makes classical music work, the ability to improvise.
You must play for the love of music. Perfect technique is not as important as making music from the heart.
I have always been far more interested in sound than technique, and how sounds work together, how they can be layered. I think electronic music, in its infancy anyway, allowed us to create music in a way that hadn't really been possible before. It created a new kind of musician.
Music is extremely intuitive, which acting too in a different way.
Music has the power to bring people together like no other art form.
With human beings it could be argued that all music-making is, in essence, grounded in improvisation.
Certain kinds of speed, flow, intensity, density of attacks, density of interaction... Music that concentrates on those qualities is, I think, easier achieved by free improvisation between people sharing a common attitude, a common language.
For a long time, I believed that a great piece of music on its own could do more to stir the soul than any other single art form.
If music leaves any impression at all, it does so without regard to stylistic issues.