I've always worked at the piano; I like to hear what I'm doing, I like the sound, to hear the actual sound. I get bored just looking at a manuscript.

- Richard Meale

There's only just so much you can do; I prefer to do only a couple of things and go to some depth in them.

- Richard Meale

I was composing before I realised I was a composer. It came more or less naturally. There were a couple of old ladies lived next door to me, and I fr…

- Richard Meale

Anything that we love seems to always come out in some form or another, but once it gets into your brain, these things get processed, and they come o…

- Richard Meale

In studying music, you're dealing with a person, not just what comes to you on a piece of paper, and it's important to get hold of what it is that li…

- Richard Meale

The one thing I never did, I was never strict in my techniques. I might have pretended in the past at times that I did work serially, or something li…

- Richard Meale

I use music as something from which I obtain some form of - I hate to use the word spiritual - guidance, an awareness of something more than the day-…

- Richard Meale

I was not happy as a traveller, I did not feel really at home anywhere I went, even in Spain which was the most I felt at home, I still was a foreign…

- Richard Meale

I was always self-taught, there was no-one to study with when I was doing composition.

- Richard Meale