Composer Quote by 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 about 200 people.

— Philip Glass

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

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 had the…

— 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 the same…

— 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 big changes,…

— 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] Feldman ...…

— Philip Glass

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

— Philip Glass

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

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