I love working with technology because it allows me to follow my imagination and to invent new things.
Tod MachoverI did take composition lessons when I was in high school, so I wrote piano pieces. I wrote some chamber music. I don't think any of that was particularly interesting.
Tod MachoverWhy does every society seem to want to make music when it often seems like kind of a frill.
Tod MachoverOne of the things I like most of all is being in my study, in my barn, with absolutely no sound anywhere thinking about something. It's extremely important to me.
Tod MachoverI almost never these days sit down with a CD or my laptop and just listen to a piece with a score. I probably would do that while I'm exercising.
Tod MachoverI think part of the bad thing is that skill is emphasized so much that a lot of people, by the time they get to Juilliard, well I think they kind of forget why they got into music in the first place and if they're performers - this is a simplification, but a lot of them are trying to win a competition and play more accurately, or better, or more beautifully, whatever can be measured, than somebody else.
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