One of the big mysteries of music is, if you take music without words, it means something to us because we know it's about something. It's about something important humanly, but since there are no words, nobody knows what it's about.
Tod MachoverThere's many reason music exists and we are beginning to no only understand that, but measure that.
Tod MachoverThe one obvious thing is that the devices are so good now that you can also see their limitations extremely well.
Tod MachoverI never liked opera growing up. I always liked chamber music or solo music even more than orchestral music.
Tod MachoverWhen I was done with high school, I knew that music was really important to me and I knew I didn't want to be a cellist, but I wasn't really sure if I wanted to be a composer, or think about - I was just interested in the ideas behind music, I was interested in mathematics.
Tod Machoverit's important as a composer to sit in silence and imagine these complex musical worlds in your head, but it's also a wonderful experience to touch your music and to hear it and hear it in the room with you and to say, you can't have an entire orchestra there, but you'd kind of like to have the orchestra there.
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