Nico Muhly Quotes
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Composition is interesting because, in a sense, you always have to let it go. Unless you're a true composer/performer, you're always sending a PDF and then someone else makes it. It's like instructions for a short story, faxed to every English student who's studying it.
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Whenever I get asked to write orchestra music or music that is for a lot of players, I try to make it a little sad.
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For me the best kind of film music is liturgical music. Liturgical music is essentially a million scores for the same film.
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I didn't entertain the idea that my music would ever become available in any of the ways that I had previously known music to be available.
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The score is doing a lot of work. It's like Wagner. It's like a yak carrying people.
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Writing orchestra music, you need for the emotional content to come from everyone doing everything together, adding up as it goes, a crowd mentality.
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When you're writing something new, writing something that's your own, basically you have nothing else to do except either invent a trick, use someone else's trick, or have no trick and get a bad performance.
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I'm pretty clear about what I'm capable of doing.