Bix Beiderbecke's Quotes
Born: 1903-03-10
Profession: Musician
Nation: American
Biography of Bix Beiderbecke
One of the things I like about jazz, kid, is I don't know what's going to happen next. Do you?
Tags: Happen, Kid, NextI was always a rebel in the sense that I always wanted to go my own road and do something that nobody else has done.
Tags: Done, Else, SenseI'm interested in music that happens now and that relates to our lives now.
Tags: Happens, Lives, MusicIt's wonderful when music is intellectually stimulating. But ultimately it has to be a visceral experience.
Tags: Experience, Music, Wonderful'Provenance' is more than a multimedia concert. It's a journey that unifies cultures through music, theater and beautiful visuals.
Tags: Beautiful, Journey, MusicA person can do a lot of reading and research as I have done. I went to Spain and spent a whole summer there with my family, immersing myself in the culture. But all that isn't really necessary to experience the music.
Tags: Experience, Family, MusicI decided that I wanted to explore all kinds of music with my cello, not just the Western classical tradition. I just wanted to try and expand my vocabulary and bring that different kind of music to my audience.
Tags: Music, Try, WantedI grew up in a kibbutz in the Galilee, but we were surrounded by Arabic villages, so I heard all these sounds and all this music. My father was very close friends with one of the Bedouin tribes, so I would always go there, to weddings, and I was always very fascinated by that music.
Tags: Father, Friends, MusicI was a rebel and I wanted to do something that nobody else did, and nobody else played the cello. Also, I was also a small kid and I liked the fact that it was big.
Tags: Big, Else, SmallPost-minimalism implies music that's genre-less. Minimalism was very important because it came at a time when contemporary music had become so complex, so experimental and detached that people turned away from it. Minimalism broke that trend and brought music back to the people.
Tags: Become, Music, Time