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

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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.

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

- 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

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

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

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

- 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…

- 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

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