When I went to college at the University of Nevada back in Las Vegas, I got tricked into singing in choir. The first thing we did was the Mozart 'Requiem.' That was the piece that changed my life overnight. — Eric Whitacre Copy Share Image
Nerves, stress and the pressure to perform are a part of life. You don't have to conquer these feelings; just learn to live with them. — Eric Whitacre Copy Share Image
The terror of performing never goes away. Instead, you get very, very comfortable being terrified. — Eric Whitacre Copy Share Image
I think [the virtual choir] speaks well to a benevolent future for the Internet. — Eric Whitacre Copy Share Image
I write music that sounds complex but isn't. I frankly never think in terms of theory. — Eric Whitacre Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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