Philip Glass Quotes

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• Traditions are imploding and exploding everywhere - everything is coming together, for better or worse, and we can no longer pretend were all living in…
• I always knew what I wanted to do and I did it.
• You get up early in the morning and you work all day. That’s the only secret.
• What you hear depends on how you focus your ear. We're not talking about inventing a new language, but rather inventing new perceptions of existing…
• I don't know what I'm doing and it's the not knowing that makes it interesting.
• You practice and you get better. It's very simple.
• What I've noticed is that people who love what they do, regardless of what that might be, tend to live longer.
• A new language requires a new technique. If what you're saying doesn't require a new language, then what you're saying probably isn't new.
• The problem with listening, of course, is that we don't. There's too much noise going on in our heads, so we never hear anything. The…
• It doesn't need to be imagined, it needs to be written down.
• I'm interested in what happens to music when other people use it. Whereas there are composers who don't like anyone to touch their music, I…
• What came to me as a revelation was the use of rhythm in developing an overall structure in music.
• I travel the world, and I'm happy to say that America is still the great melting pot - maybe a chunky stew rather than a…

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