Theatrical times are different from concert times, to put it simply. Taking a figure like [Mahatma] Gandhi and setting him on a stage requires thinking about what theater is about and what the whole experience is about and what we're… — 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 the time, and changing that language very radically was just a sign or a signal that I was… — 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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