Yann Tiersen famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Let's play with sound, forget all knowledge and instrumental skills, and just use instinct â€“ the same way punk did.
-- Yann Tiersen

#Play #Skills #Use
I want less and less control with music. Just playing music without any idea of composition or writing.
-- Yann Tiersen

#Writing #Ideas #Want
I love working and writing new songs. But sometimes you need to wait, to have something in your mind, and then you can let yourself play music.
-- Yann Tiersen

#Song #Writing #Play
I started making music with my band in the 80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.
-- Yann Tiersen

#Way #Band #Punk
Most of the time I like to start an album abroad, not at home, just to avoid the pressure, to not wake up and think, OK, its the first of recording this album. I like to avoid that.
-- Yann Tiersen

#Home #Thinking #Wake Up
I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.
-- Yann Tiersen

#Play #Gigs #Imagine

Extremely large greens breed slovenly play. When any green ceases to command respect, it loses its value as a test of that rarest of all strokes, the shot home.
I don't know why we play better on the road. I really don't. Chalk it up to coincidence, I guess. I don't think we care where we play, which is a good thing. But you'd like to see our home record be a little better than it is.
My downtime tends to resemble my uptime. Weekends are workdays, but toned down. Over the whole weekend, I may have five meetings, as opposed to six on a weekday. I used to play piano for 30 minutes at night, but I had to pull that out of my schedule. I don't have time for nonwork stuff.
I think by eighth grade I knew I wanted to be an actor. I'd done church plays and stuff, but my first actual acting class was in eighth grade. I was obsessed with it.
I think being recognized more is something you have to get used to, whether it's your homeland or when you're traveling. People recognize me from my play or a commercial I've done. It's just a normal part of life.
The stuff that I write doesn't work very well as background music. You have to watch it from beginning to end and pay attention as if you were watching a play.
After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved science and art tend to coalesce in aesthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are artists as well.
All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use.
You're my present and my future Sadie, I will use whatever power I have to make you happy.
Of course on air I use occasional hyperbole to tell a story.

Yann Tiersen famous quotes

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