I consider the first 20 performances just learning the piece. Think about it this way: If you think about a pianist who plays a Schubert sonata through his whole lifetime - if you listen to Rubenstein or Horowitz playing their… — Philip Glass Copy Share Image
So the real drama for me is balancing live performances and writing, and one of the ways I balance it is I write in hotel rooms. That's not exactly balancing. Actually, writing in hotel rooms means that I'm refusing to… — 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
![“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)
