Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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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.

Philip Glass's Popular Quotes

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 much more livable and durable c…

- Philip Glass

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

The work I've done is the work I know, and the work I do is the work I don't know. I don't know what I'm doing.

- Philip Glass

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 l…

- 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.

- Philip Glass

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 conversat…

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You get up early in the morning and you work all day. That’s the only secret.

- Philip Glass

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

- Philip Glass

There's almost no content in terms of language at all. I don't like using language to convey meaning. I'd rather use images and music.

- Philip Glass