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
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 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 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 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
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 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
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
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
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
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
