David Harrington Quotes (9 Quotes)

Several years ago it occurred to me that we might be lucky enough to introduce our audience to Stravinsky and Elvis at the same time.

I just trust my ears.

But the chord changes are haunting, and there are moments that draw you right in, in the most intimate way. We'll record it when we've performed it a few times. A piece like that needs to be out in the sunlight for a while.

After we recorded his song 'Aaj Ki Raat' (from Anamika , 1973) on our Kronos Caravan CD, a friend of mine was interviewing Asha Bhosle. He played our version for her, and then he sent me a photograph of her singing along with our recording, while holding the jacket of the CD. That was about six years ago, and it was probably at that moment that I had this little idea 'Wouldn't it be incredible if somehow we could have Asha Bhosle as our lead singer and record an album of R D Burman's music' In working with Asha Bhosle on 'You've Stolen My Heart', Kronos has experienced not only Burman's living legacy, but also one of the most talented and generous artists I know of. Asha truly is the Queen of Bollywood.

The kids watch TV and get this sense about how it's glamorous, or when you get shot, you're dead,

I heard George Crumbs Black Angels and I knew that I had just heard the music that I was born to play.

The kids that are out there doing this stuff to each other -- it's an awful waste of life and potential. It's terrible.

I do try to keep my ears open 24 hours a day. I get magnetized if I get music that I like ... whatever pulls me, I trust that instinct.

We hardly do the same concert twice in a row. It's such an amazing time to be alive, to be a musician, to be able to participate in the world of music. I feel we've got like a workshop, a studio filled with so many amazing pieces of music. It's a toolbox from which we can build our concerts.