When I had my first experiences of choral singing, the dissonance of those close harmonies was so exquisite that I would giggle or I would tear up, and I felt it in a physical way. — Eric Whitacre Copy Share Image
The terror of performing never goes away. Instead, you get very, very comfortable being terrified. — Eric Whitacre Copy Share
I think [the virtual choir] speaks well to a benevolent future for the Internet. — Eric Whitacre Copy Share
I write music that sounds complex but isn't. I frankly never think in terms of theory. — Eric Whitacre Copy Share
I can't write music unless I'm deeply connected to it and that connection almost always comes from some experience that I have had or… — Eric Whitacre Copy Share
I truly thought I was going to be in pop music. And then I joined a choir to meet girls, and everything changed in… — Eric Whitacre Copy Share
To have a live choir there on the stage and then these singers from different countries signing with us in real time through Skype,… — Eric Whitacre Copy Share
People in chorus tends to be much more emotional or at least wear their hearts on their sleeve. They are generally the kind to… — Eric Whitacre Copy Share
When you look back on music history, it falls into these neat periods, but of course, the period you yourself are living through seems… — Eric Whitacre Copy Share
There must be four or five hundred choirs here in London alone. In a way, there's nowhere else on Earth I could go and… — Eric Whitacre Copy Share
For me, the virtual choir has taught me that, if anything, the Internet builds these post-national tribes, people finding each other anyway they can. — Eric Whitacre Copy Share
The virtual choir would never replace live music or a real choir, but the same sort of focus and intent and esprit de corps… — Eric Whitacre Copy Share
I'm a self-confessed geek, and my whole concept of music at first was entirely electronic. In many ways, it turned out to be an… — Eric Whitacre Copy Share
Since I first fell in love with choral music when I was 18 and began composing at 21, I've been listening to these recordings… — Eric Whitacre Copy Share
