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Nico Muhly Quotes

Total quotes: 6
“You and me
Traveling this empty road alone
But I can see
A place for us to make ourselves a home
And oh my god
I could fall in love with you
Oh my god
Tell me what I have to do”
— San Fermin, Nico Muhly, Attacca Quartet, Oh my god, Tell me what I have to do
“She’s a mistake I never corrected.”
— Nico Muhly, Teitur, Love Hits You Where it Hurts
Tagged: Love, real love
“My third life is in the arts.”
— Nico Muhly, Teitur, Coffee Expert
“I love to watch perfect things.”
— Nico Muhly, Teitur, Coffee Expert
Tagged: Idealism
“Having the music be a meditative space, with micro-narratives and different areas of intensity, feels more intimately communicative than expecting everybody to agree: ‘Ah, that was the sad bit,’ and ‘That was the climax right there.’”
— Nico Muhly, Nico Muhly on Why Choral Music Is Slow Food for the Soul
Tagged: Music, Making Complex and Nuanced Music, Telling Stories Through Music, Classical music, O Sing Unto the Lord, Andrew Gant, Books
“To start ranking composers working in this tradition does a small disservice to the countless moments of accidental transcendence that are possible not just in the writer’s hand, but in the buildings for which the music was written, in the subtle personal intimacies of a small choir’s members looking at one another directly in the eye across the chancel.”
— Nico Muhly, Nico Muhly on Why Choral Music Is Slow Food for the Soul
Tagged: Why Ranking Things is BS, Classical music, O Sing Unto the Lord, Andrew Gant, Books
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