I currently spend a lot of time thinking about orchestration and every detail of a piece.

- Gavin Bryars

I remember once, when I started writing for the alto saxophone, a saxophonist told me to think of it as being like a cross between an oboe and a viol…

- Gavin Bryars

Music history has flowed under the bridges for many years.

- Gavin Bryars

Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century.

- Gavin Bryars

As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as I had taught…

- Gavin Bryars

Somehow in the 20th Century an idea has developed that music is an activity or skill which is not comprehensible to the man in the street. This is an…

- Gavin Bryars

What was once underground is now coming to the surface.

- Gavin Bryars

It's rather like attending a university seminar where you are talking to a few gifted specialists who deliver a paper to an audience of their peers. …

- Gavin Bryars

Still, American composers working in France have had a pretty hard time.

- Gavin Bryars