--- title: "2 Einstein Quotes By Philip Glass" description: "2 Einstein quotes by Philip Glass. Plus more from Philip Glass and more Einstein sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3b1/philip-glass-14533_changed_akhnaten-is-kind-of-a-dark-kind-of-myste_1373773.jpg" --- > [Akhnaten is kind of a dark, kind of mysterious character. We don't know a lot about him - a lot of information on him was lost. But he obviously was a kind of iconoclast of him time. I guess I'm…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-glass/akhnaten-is-kind-of-a-dark-kind-of-mysterious-character-we-don-t-know/) [Philip Glass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-glass/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3b1/philip-glass-14533_changed_akhnaten-is-kind-of-a-dark-kind-of-myste_1373773.jpg) > [“In one of our early conversations, Bob said to me, "I like Einstein as a character, because everybody knows who he is." In a sense, we didn't need to tell an Einstein story because everybody who eventually saw our Einstein…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-glass/in-one-of-our-early-conversations-bob-said-to-me-i-like-einstein-as-a/) [philip glass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-glass/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ae2/philip-glass-14533_communication_in-one-of-our-early-conversations-bob-sa_1798431.jpg) ## Other authors on Einstein ## More by Philip Glass > [I, as a young guy getting out of music school, I didn't like the prospect of spending my life writing music for about 200 people.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-glass/i-as-a-young-guy-getting-out-of-music-school-i-didn-t-like-the/) [Philip Glass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-glass/) > [My biggest problem about writing is whenever I write piano pieces, because I then have to learn to play them, which is sometimes not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-glass/my-biggest-problem-about-writing-is-whenever-i-write-piano-pieces/) [Philip Glass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-glass/) > [In order to arrive at a personal style, you have to have a technique to begin with.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-glass/in-order-to-arrive-at-a-personal-style-you-have-to-have-a-technique/) [Philip Glass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-glass/) > [I think it's a great handicap to be discovered at an early age. I didn't have that burden of early success. I had the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-glass/i-think-it-s-a-great-handicap-to-be-discovered-at-an-early-age-i-didn/) [Philip Glass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-glass/) > [I don't know what I'm doing and it's the not knowing that makes it interesting.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-glass/i-don-t-know-what-i-m-doing-and-it-s-the-not-knowing-that-makes-it/) [Philip Glass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-glass/) > [It takes about a year to write an opera for me, but not a really a year of writing. I'm touring at the same…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-glass/it-takes-about-a-year-to-write-an-opera-for-me-but-not-a-really-a/) [Philip Glass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-glass/) > [I don't think I'm capable of making radical changes, but over a period of four or five years you can perceive very big changes,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-glass/i-don-t-think-i-m-capable-of-making-radical-changes-but-over-a-period/) [Philip Glass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-glass/) > [You practice and you get better. It's very simple.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-glass/you-practice-and-you-get-better-it-s-very-simple/) [Philip Glass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-glass/) > [ The generation of composers that are just preceded me, people like \[Karlheinz\] Stockhausen, \[Pierre\] Boulez, and, well, \[John\] Cage for that matter,\[Morton\] Feldman ...… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-glass/the-generation-of-composers-that-are-just-preceded-me-people-like/) [Philip Glass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-glass/) > [The hardest thing about traveling is that mostly you get to a point - and it always happens on every tour - where you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-glass/the-hardest-thing-about-traveling-is-that-mostly-you-get-to-a-point/) [Philip Glass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-glass/) > [I travel the world, and I'm happy to say that America is still the great melting pot - maybe a chunky stew rather than…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-glass/i-travel-the-world-and-i-m-happy-to-say-that-america-is-still-the/) [Philip Glass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-glass/) > [Traditions are imploding and exploding everywhere - everything is coming together, for better or worse, and we can no longer pretend we're all living…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-glass/traditions-are-imploding-and-exploding-everywhere-everything-is/) [Philip Glass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-glass/) > [The work I've done is the work I know, and the work I do is the work I don't know. I don't know what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-glass/the-work-i-ve-done-is-the-work-i-know-and-the-work-i-do-is-the-work-i/) [Philip Glass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-glass/) > [I'd say it's just part of the world that we live in; it's part of the music world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-glass/i-d-say-it-s-just-part-of-the-world-that-we-live-in-it-s-part-of-the/) [Philip Glass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-glass/) > [There's almost no content in terms of language at all. I don't like using language to convey meaning. I'd rather use images and music.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-glass/there-s-almost-no-content-in-terms-of-language-at-all-i-don-t-like/) [Philip Glass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-glass/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/einstein/philip-glass/#itemlist", "name": "2 Einstein Quotes By Philip Glass", "numberOfItems": 2, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Akhnaten is kind of a dark, kind of mysterious character. We don't know a lot about him - a lot of information on him was lost. But he obviously was a kind of iconoclast of him time. I guess I'm attracted to people like that. 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From the viewpoint of the creators, of course, that is exactly the way it was constructed to work. Though we made no attempt at all to tell a story, we did use dramaturgical devices to create a clearly paced overall dramatic shape. For instance, a \"finale\" is a dramaturgical device; an \"epilogue\" is another. Using contrasting sections, like a slow trial scene followed by a fast dance scene, is a dramaturgical device, and we used such devices freely. I am sure that the absence of direct connotative \"meaning\" made it all the easier for the spectator to personalize the experience by supplying his own special \"meaning\" out of his own experience, while the work itself remained resolutely abstract. As to the use of three visual schemes, or images, Bob often mentioned that he envisioned them in three distinct ways: (1) a landscape seen at a distance (the Field/Spaceship scenes); (2) still lifes seen at a middle distance (the Trial scenes); and (3) portraits seen as in a closeup (the Knee Plays). As these three perspectives rotated through the four acts of the work, they created the sequence of images in an ordered scale. Furthermore, the recurrence of the images implied a kind of quasi-development. For example, the sequence of Train scenes from the Act I, scene 1 Train, to the \"night train\" of Act II and finally the building which resembled in perspective the departing night train, presented that sequence of images in a reductive order (each one became less \"train-like\") and at the same time more focused and energized. The same process applies to the sequence of Trial scenes (ending with a bar of light representing the bed) as well as the Field/Spaceship, with the final scene in the interior of the spaceship serving as a kind of apocalyptic grand finale of the whole work. Each time an image reappeared, it was altered to become more abstract and, oddly enough, more powerful. 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