Eric Whitacre famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The terror of performing never goes away. Instead, you get very, very comfortable being terrified.
-- Eric Whitacre

#Performing #Terror
Write the music your inside-you needs your outside-you to hear.
-- Eric Whitacre

#Writing #Needs
I don't know if it is a spiritual, physiological or psychological phenomenon, but I believe now more than ever that singing is a universal, built-in mechanism designed to cultivate empathy and compassion.
-- Eric Whitacre

#Spiritual #Believe #Compassion
When I had my first experiences of choral singing, the dissonance of those close harmonies was so exquisite that I would giggle or I would tear up, and I felt it in a physical way.
-- Eric Whitacre

#Singing #Tears #Firsts
Nerves, stress and the pressure to perform are a part of life. You don't have to conquer these feelings; just learn to live with them.
-- Eric Whitacre

#Stress #Feelings #Nerves
I think [the virtual choir] speaks well to a benevolent future for the Internet.
-- Eric Whitacre

#Thinking #Speak #Internet
When I think of people I am close to, I genuinely feel that I can include Josh Lyman, Toby Ziegler, C.J. Cregg and Sam Seaborn.
-- Eric Whitacre

#Thinking #People #Community

I think theatricality is just one way of performing. I don't think it's a better way or the way, but it's my way.
When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience. I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
Music makes your soul feel amazing while you're performing it.
Performing is an experience, for me, that is as humbling as it is energizing.
I knew when I was in high school that I wanted a job where they'd applaud if I showed up.
There hasn't been one highlight that stands out... but touring and performing has been great.
I'm not performing miracles, I'm using up and wasting a lot of paint...
Terror ripped through me as I was falling, falling, falling toward the sea.
Death is robbed of much of its terror for the true believer.
I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror.

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