Writing tonal music now, you ...

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

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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 arrogant assertion and not necessarily a true one.
 Gavin Bryars
The academic area of new music or modern music festivals is not something which attracts me at all.
 Gavin Bryars
Still, American composers working in France have had a pretty hard time.
 Gavin Bryars
One thing I'm doing on the new Titanic recording is actually bringing in different acoustic spaces.
 Gavin Bryars
I am writing something which I find satisfying and which I am prepared to put my name to as a composer.
 Gavin Bryars