I don't think anyone listening to my music needs any special knowledge. They don't need to have a background in contemporary music. They don't need to go to new-music concerts all the time in order to be able to understand it.
If the music is good, and if it makes sense as a strong structure and as a drama, and things happen as a result of what happened before, not just as … - Missy Mazzoli
If the music is good, and if it makes sense as a strong structure and as a drama, and things happen as a result of what happened before, not just as …
- Missy Mazzoli
I have this ideal listener, as John Cage did. This listener doesn't bring expectations that my music will fit into some part of music history, or tha… - Missy Mazzoli
I have this ideal listener, as John Cage did. This listener doesn't bring expectations that my music will fit into some part of music history, or tha…
There's some ambient music that doesn't do anything. I wouldn't say that that's narrative. It is narrative in that it creates a sort of world where n… - Missy Mazzoli
There's some ambient music that doesn't do anything. I wouldn't say that that's narrative. It is narrative in that it creates a sort of world where n…
I write my music with the idea that it will appeal to all of those people, and I want them to go in with all the history that's within all of us - al… - Missy Mazzoli
I write my music with the idea that it will appeal to all of those people, and I want them to go in with all the history that's within all of us - al…
For me, writing music is a way of processing the world. It's not a concrete thing, as in, "This piece is about giraffes." It's much more of an emotio… - Missy Mazzoli
For me, writing music is a way of processing the world. It's not a concrete thing, as in, "This piece is about giraffes." It's much more of an emotio…
I don't think that those things [so called common practice] ever truly existed in the way that we like to believe that they do, the way we learn abou… - Missy Mazzoli
I don't think that those things [so called common practice] ever truly existed in the way that we like to believe that they do, the way we learn abou…
I feel like there's not this black-and-white division between concert hall music and music that bands play in a bar. I don't know if this was ever tr… - Missy Mazzoli
I feel like there's not this black-and-white division between concert hall music and music that bands play in a bar. I don't know if this was ever tr…
Sometimes you feel some artists are doing the same thing that you're doing but in a different field. But they have the same approach. Their method of… - Missy Mazzoli
Sometimes you feel some artists are doing the same thing that you're doing but in a different field. But they have the same approach. Their method of…
I want my music to be something that people use in order to access parts of themselves. So in that sense, every piece I write is about all emotions a… - Missy Mazzoli
I want my music to be something that people use in order to access parts of themselves. So in that sense, every piece I write is about all emotions a…
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