Philip Glass famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Simple #Practice #Get Better
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 inner conversation simply never stops. It can be our voice or whatever voices we want to supply, but it's a constant racket. In the same way we don't see, and in the same way we don't feel, we don't touch, we don't taste.
-- Philip Glass

#Voice #Listening #Want
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 melting pot at this point, but you know what I mean.
-- Philip Glass

#Travel #Mean #America
You get up early in the morning and you work all day. Thatâ€™s the only secret.
-- Philip Glass

#Morning #Secret
Traditions are imploding and exploding everywhere - everything is coming together, for better or worse, and we can no longer pretend were all living in different worlds because were on different continents.
-- Philip Glass

#Together #World #Different
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.
-- Philip Glass

#Technique #Language
I don't know what I'm doing and it's the not knowing that makes it interesting.
-- Philip Glass

#Creativity #Knowing #Interesting
What I've noticed is that people who love what they do, regardless of what that might be, tend to live longer.
-- Philip Glass

#People #Might
I've been called a minimalist composer for more than 30 years, and while I've never really agreed with the description, I've gotten used to it.
-- Philip Glass

#Years #Minimalist #Description
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 languages.
-- Philip Glass

#Talking #Focus #Listening
I always knew what I wanted to do and I did it.
-- Philip Glass

#Wanted
It doesn't need to be imagined, it needs to be written down.
-- Philip Glass

#Needs
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 think people should because they do things I can't think of.
-- Philip Glass

#Thinking #People #Use
What came to me as a revelation was the use of rhythm in developing an overall structure in music.
-- Philip Glass

#Use #Revelations #Structure

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