Quotes by Philip Glass

Philip Glass

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.

Ifs

Language

Technique

Akhnaten is kind of a dark, kind of mysterious character. We don’t know a lot about him – a lot of information on him was lost. But he obviously was a kind of iconoclast of him time. I guess I’m attracted to people like that. Like [Albert] Einstein also, who radically changed our way of thinking about the world we live in.

Character

Dark

Thinking

But the difference between the little pieces and the big pieces – I’m not actually sure which are the little pieces. With some of the big pieces, it’s a lot of musical running around, whereas the little pieces, you can say everything you want to say.

Differences

Musical

Running

Finally, ultimately, you write music for yourself. I mean, I need a public, I need people to play, I need everything else. I’m not working in isolation. But finally the man that writes the music is alone. And I have to respond to those criteria which are almost like inner needs or inner responses.

Mean

Men

Writing

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

Wanted

I consider the first 20 performances just learning the piece. Think about it this way: If you think about a pianist who plays a Schubert sonata through his whole lifetime – if you listen to Rubenstein or Horowitz playing their repertoire later in their life, you understand the richness with which they play that music, and how differently they must have played it when they were younger.

Pieces

Play

Thinking

I don’t know that I make a big distinction between the big pieces and the little pieces, because I don’t experience them in that way. I mean, by the same token, you’re out touring with a band and then you’re writing string quartets, and in a funny way, isn’t it all the same, in a way? It’s all just music.

Band

Mean

Writing

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

Creativity

Interesting

Knowing

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, and they seem rather small at the time.

Radical Change

Thinking

Years

I find that people can’t find you. It’s kind of quiet. When I go to a city, I can almost always get a piano if I need one. So there’s something nice about being on the road and focusing on something you want to do.

Cities

Nice

Piano

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America

Band

Bases

Beach

Bob

Cages

Careers

Character

Choices

Cities

Creativity

Dark

Differences

Different

Done

Drama

Eating

Fifty

Focus

Gears

Get Better

Hardest

Ideas

Ifs

Interesting

Knowing

Knows

Language

Lineage

Listening

Lonely

Mean

Men

Might

Minimalist

Mistake

Morning

Musical

Names

Needs

Nice

Order

People

Piano

Pieces

Play

Practice

Radical Change

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Quotes by Philip Glass

Philip Glass

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.

But the difference between the little pieces and the big pieces – I’m not actually sure which are the little pieces. With some of the big pieces, it’s a lot of musical running around, whereas the little pieces, you can say everything you want to say.

Finally, ultimately, you write music for yourself. I mean, I need a public, I need people to play, I need everything else. I’m not working in isolation. But finally the man that writes the music is alone. And I have to respond to those criteria which are almost like inner needs or inner responses.

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

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

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, and they seem rather small at the time.

I find that people can’t find you. It’s kind of quiet. When I go to a city, I can almost always get a piano if I need one. So there’s something nice about being on the road and focusing on something you want to do.

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