What came to me as a revelation was the use of rhythm in developing an overall structure in music. — Philip Glass Copy Share Image
I'd say the differences are more interesting than the similarities at this point. Certainly no one would ever mistake my music for… — Philip Glass Copy Share Image
I'd say it's just part of the world that we live in; it's part of the music world. — Philip Glass Copy Share Image
I, as a young guy getting out of music school, I didn't like the prospect of spending my life writing music for… — Philip Glass Copy Share Image
“the point of writing music and experiencing music isn’t to make people comfortable necessarily” — Philip Glass Copy Share Image
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… — Philip Glass Copy Share Image
I'm interested in what happens to music when other people use it. Whereas there are composers who don't like anyone to touch… — Philip Glass Copy Share Image
Finally, ultimately, you write music for yourself. I mean, I need a public, I need people to play, I need everything else.… — Philip Glass Copy Share Image
I was a regular kind of academic music student. I was at Juilliard. I had to study all the contemporary music of… — Philip Glass Copy Share Image
I think I'm really part of a whole generational movement in a way. I think a lot of other people since and… — Philip Glass Copy Share Image
“The interview went well. I found him warm but not eager, friendly but slightly impersonal, and he answered all questions concerning music… — Philip Glass Copy Share Image
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. — Philip Glass Copy Share Image
My biggest problem about writing is whenever I write piano pieces, because I then have to learn to play them, which is sometimes not… — Philip Glass Copy Share Image
In order to arrive at a personal style, you have to have a technique to begin with. — Philip Glass Copy Share Image
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… — Philip Glass Copy Share Image
I don't know what I'm doing and it's the not knowing that makes it interesting. — Philip Glass Copy Share Image
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… — Philip Glass Copy Share Image
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,… — Philip Glass Copy Share Image
The generation of composers that are just preceded me, people like [Karlheinz] Stockhausen, [Pierre] Boulez, and, well, [John] Cage for that matter,[Morton] Feldman ...… — Philip Glass Copy Share Image
The hardest thing about traveling is that mostly you get to a point - and it always happens on every tour - where you… — Philip Glass Copy Share Image
I travel the world, and I'm happy to say that America is still the great melting pot - maybe a chunky stew rather than… — Philip Glass Copy Share Image
Traditions are imploding and exploding everywhere - everything is coming together, for better or worse, and we can no longer pretend we're all living… — Philip Glass Copy Share Image
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![“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 time, and I'm playing, sometimes doing smaller projects.[The opera] Akhnaten fits in with Gandhi and Einstein, so that forms a trilogy in a way.I picked people who were these kind of larger…” quote by Philip Glass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/20d/philip-glass-14533_admirable_it-takes-about-a-year-to-write-an-opera_444252.jpg)
![“The generation of composers that are just preceded me, people like [Karlheinz] Stockhausen, [Pierre] Boulez, and, well, [John] Cage for that matter,[Morton] Feldman ... That was a kind of experimental music that was very isolated. It had no real public.” quote by Philip Glass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f0e/philip-glass-14533_cages_the-generation-of-composers-that-are-jus_789302.jpg)
