Paul Lansky Quotes - Page 2

• I came to what I think of as the critical problem: the aging process of a piece of music. I noticed in the '70s that pieces I wrote would sound great the first time I listened to them and then on repeated hearings they sounded older and older until what seemed exciting and vibrant on first listening became stale.

  Paul Lansky

  Thinking, Listening, Pieces

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• There are, however, composers whose music can only be heard in a chromatic sense. George Perle, for example, wrote pieces that you might think of as leaning in a tonal direction but it's very hard to register a pitch as, say, the sixth degree of a scale, whereas in much of my music I think that's often relatively easy to do.

  Paul Lansky

  Thinking, Example, Pieces

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• I found myself recycling ideas and I saw that I had to invent reasons to compose a piece rather than start from some exciting idea.

  Paul Lansky

  Ideas, Pieces, Saws

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• It's very interesting for me to listen to music with my wife. She's not a musician but she very often makes comments about pieces in ways that are similar to what I'm thinking.

  Paul Lansky

  Thinking, Interesting, Wife

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• I don't think of my music as being about something.

  Paul Lansky

  Thinking

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