Philip Glass

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

My biggest problem about writing is whenever I write piano pieces, because I then have to learn to play them, which is…

— Philip Glass

In order to arrive at a personal style, you have to have a technique to begin with.

— Philip Glass

I think it's a great handicap to be discovered at an early age. I didn't have that burden of early success. I…

— Philip Glass

I don't know what I'm doing and it's the not knowing that makes it interesting.

— Philip Glass

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

I don't think I'm capable of making radical changes, but over a period of four or five years you can perceive very…

— Philip Glass

You practice and you get better. It's very simple.

— Philip Glass

The generation of composers that are just preceded me, people like [Karlheinz] Stockhausen, [Pierre] Boulez, and, well, [John] Cage for that matter,[Morton]…

— Philip Glass

The hardest thing about traveling is that mostly you get to a point - and it always happens on every tour -…

— Philip Glass

I travel the world, and I'm happy to say that America is still the great melting pot - maybe a chunky stew…

— Philip Glass

Traditions are imploding and exploding everywhere - everything is coming together, for better or worse, and we can no longer pretend we're…

— Philip Glass

The work I've done is the work I know, and the work I do is the work I don't know. I don't…

— Philip Glass

I'd say it's just part of the world that we live in; it's part of the music world.

— Philip Glass

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

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

You get up early in the morning and you work all day. That’s the only secret.

— Philip Glass

Akhnaten is kind of a dark, kind of mysterious character. We don't know a lot about him - a lot of information…

— Philip Glass

I always knew what I wanted to do and I did it.

— Philip Glass

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

I like the idea that [Mahatma] Gandhi is appearing now in an opera hall in all these different places, and people kind…

— Philip Glass

If you remember your lineage, you will never feel lonely.

— Philip Glass

“In one of our early conversations, Bob said to me, "I like Einstein as a character, because everybody knows who he is."…

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Finally, ultimately, you write music for yourself. I mean, I need a public, I need people to play, I need everything else.…

— Philip Glass

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