“I don't know the names of any pop musicians. Pop music is standardised; it's made to please the largest audience possible. I also compose to please a large audience, but when you listen to my music, you understand that I have studied and applied the whole history of composition.”
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Italian composer, orchestrator and conductor 1928–2020Related quotes

“You know things have gone bad when military marches pass for pop music.”
Source: Witch & Wizard

Quoted in The Musical Times, February 1909; cited from Percy A. Scholes The Mirror of Music, 1844-1944 (London: Novello, 1947) vol. 1, p. 267.

“I don't think that American audiences would accept the tonal character of my music.”
As quoted by David Milner, "Akira Ifukube Interview I" http://www.davmil.org/www.kaijuconversations.com/ifukub.htm, Kaiju Conversations (December 1992)

Gameplay magazine

Quoted in The Beatles — After the Break-up : In Their Own Words (1991) by David Bennahum, p. 54

“Music completely overpowers me. Love it when I can experience it with my live audience.”
Concert at Auckland Sydney New Jersey Dallas https://www.facebook.com/shreyaghoshal/photos/a.10150127795216484.302690.11541726483/10154457107311484/