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I'd say the differences are m...

I'd say the differences are more interesting than the similarities at this point. Certainly no one would ever mistake my music for Steve's [ Reich].

Philip Glass 30 quotes

I like the idea that [Mahatma...

I like the idea that [Mahatma] Gandhi is appearing now in an opera hall in all these different places, and people kind of think about it again.

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I think I'm really part of a ...

I think I'm really part of a whole generational movement in a way. I think a lot of other people since and during this time have gotten interested in writing what we can still call experimental music. It's not commercial music. And it's really a concert music, but a concert music for our time. And wanting to find the audience, because we've discovered the audience is really there. Those became really clear with Einstein on the Beach.

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Akhnaten is kind of a dark, k...

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.

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I shift between mediums very ...

I shift between mediums very frequently. Instead of taking a break from writing, I just write in a different medium or in a different way or for a different purpose, so that I don't actually stop writing - I just go to something else. Like going from a big symphony to a piano piece is great and very refreshing, I find. And then going from that to a big concerto, and then having to go out and play.

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What came to me as a revelati...

What came to me as a revelation was the use of rhythm in developing an overall structure in music.

Philip Glass 30 quotes

I don't know what I'm doing a...

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

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Finally, ultimately, you writ...

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.

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So the real drama for me is b...

So the real drama for me is balancing live performances and writing, and one of the ways I balance it is I write in hotel rooms. That's not exactly balancing. Actually, writing in hotel rooms means that I'm refusing to deal with the problem.

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But the difference between th...

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.

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My biggest problem about writ...

My biggest problem about writing is whenever I write piano pieces, because I then have to learn to play them, which is sometimes not so easy.

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I don't think I'm capable of ...

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.

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If you don't have a basis on ...

If you don't have a basis on which to make the choice, then you don't have a style at all. You have a series of accidents.

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I travel the world, and I'm h...

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.

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Traditions are imploding and ...

Traditions are imploding and exploding everywhere - everything is coming together, for better or worse, and we can no longer pretend we're all living in different worlds because we're on different continents.

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What you hear depends on how y...

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 30 quotes

I travel the world, and I'm ha...

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 30 quotes

What came to me as a revelatio...

What came to me as a revelation was the use of rhythm in developing an overall structure in music.

Philip Glass 30 quotes

I've been called a minimalist ...

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 30 quotes

I don't know what I'm doing an...

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

Philip Glass 30 quotes

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