Akhnaten is kind of a dark, kind of mysterious character. We don't know a lot about him - a lot of information… — Philip Glass Copy Share Image
I don't know that I make a big distinction between the big pieces and the little pieces, because I don't experience them… — Philip Glass Copy Share Image
Theatrical times are different from concert times, to put it simply. Taking a figure like [Mahatma] Gandhi and setting him on a… — 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… — Philip Glass Copy Share Image
I consider the first 20 performances just learning the piece. Think about it this way: If you think about a pianist who… — Philip Glass Copy Share Image
I've been working in theater, really, since about 1965. I started working with the Mabou Mines about then, and in a way… — 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
I shift between mediums very frequently. Instead of taking a break from writing, I just write in a different medium or in… — 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… — Philip Glass Copy Share Image
The problem with listening, of course, is that we don't. There's too much noise going on in our heads, so we never… — 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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![“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 trying to communicate in that way, so you get into certain less…” quote by Philip Glass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4da/philip-glass-14533_abstract_theatrical-times-are-different-from-conc_3024128.jpg)
![“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)
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