Top 26 Quotes & Sayings by Michael Snow
Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Canadian artist Michael Snow.
Last updated on September 18, 2024.
The piano is a bit of a monster because it is this center of Western music and so much has been done with it and it is a fixed pitch instrument. It is a bit like trying to paint because there is the weight of all that has been done before.
Socially in my alliances I wanted to just have a strong alliance and making decisions but not putting it out there but letting other people be the target in that way. I think it worked until I should not have been playing that way anymore.
We've been able to record the music of cultures that did not have recording, and thus preserve it. But there is also a negative aspect to this and that is the effect of the intrusion of the West on such cultures.
I do a lot of challenges I run marathons and stuff like that and I like to challenge myself.
There is really not that much improvisation in my films. There is an acceptance of a chance.
I don't watch a lot of reality TV.
I really want to make physical things so that the experience is a real experience and not just conceptual.
You have to act and this is something that happened in abstract expressionism too, it was a discovery particularly in De Kooning's paintings, great paintings. There's a lot of speed in his work and the speed produces things that only speed can produce.
The idea that recording itself is an instrument.
I try to make each film a different film.
I know there is also the influence of television and being able to zap away so it is a weightier decision to go into the theater than it used to be. And probably attention spans are not as strong as they used to be, generally speaking.
Speed is a way to escape consciousness and just act.
The things that can go wrong are particular to mediums and they make for qualities that really are of the medium.
Within the context of Western music, jazz has always contained certain radical or revolutionary aspects. These are: improvisation, collective composition and individuality or the personal sound (based on amazing variations in sonority, timbre and pitch).
When my name started popping up I was quite irritated and a little bit in shock.
It is understandable that people cannot be knowledgeable about all the different mediums. Sometimes it is funny.
Some of my films have caused riots, fights, and all kinds of things.
To extend the depth of what has been called 'art' into photography requires... making available to the spectator the amazing transformations the subject undergoes to become the photograph.
I am a little bit of a foul mouth and I just like to give it back to people.
When you narrow down your range and are looking through just that narrow aperture of the lens, the intensity of what you see is so much greater.
I do consider the individual things individual, in a way because that is what I do I guess, try to find out what is special about each medium.
Sometimes you talk to people who really don't know anything about your work, and what can you say?
I don't know what is happening to people but they are not as tough as they used to be.
Say you are doing a portrait and the face is perfectly done, but the rest of it is done in brushstrokes. That is sort of like what might happen in the films.
People's vocabulary has expanded.
If you think too much in the music you are too late.
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