Any species capable of producing, at this earliest, juvenile stage of its development... the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, cannot be all bad.
Lewis Thomas
The need to make music, and to listen to it, is universally expressed by human beings. I cannot imagine, even in our most primitive times, the... →
I suffered a bout of depression that pushed me to reevalute things in my life, and I learned a lot about myself and the world and my spirituality. I... →
Matthew James Thomas
I'm not a great guitarist, but I do bits and bobs. I'm mainly a songwriter and a composer. I've done a lot of scoring and some stuff for... →
I was always into music, but I wanted to do film when I was kid. I remember seeing big movies and wanting to do them. Then I was lucky enough to act... →
And what classical music does best and must always do more, is to show this kind of transformation of moods, to show a very wide psychological... →
Michael Tilson Thomas
Extreme volume in music very often disguises a lack of actually important content.
I think music needs to be presented in a way so that kids can grasp songs, dances, simple music that's associated with some particular defining... →
Earlier in my life, I performed a lot of music. Some of it because I felt it was a demonstration, or a representation of certain intellectual... →
But still as compared to many, many orchestras in the world, I think you find a lot more new music and living composers on our programs than many... →