Tristan Murail quotes

  • To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.

  • When I speak of the gifted listener, I am thinking of the nonmusician primarily, of the listener who intends to retain his amateur status. It is the thought of just such a listener that excites the composer in me.

  • I think that's what really a substantial work is, it's forever. It's the truth now and it was the truth then, and it will be the truth tomorrow.

  • A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

  • You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living.

  • Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.

  • I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately.

  • I love love stories, no matter how dark.

  • The swells were amazing! As big as three-story apartment buildings!

  • Don’t read success stories, you will only get a message. Read failure stories, you will get some ideas to get success.