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

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It takes about a year to write an opera for me, but not a really a year of writing. I'm touring at the same time, and I'm playing, sometimes doing smaller projects.[The opera] Akhnaten fits in with Gandhi and Einstein, so that forms a trilogy in a way.I picked people who were these kind of larger than life characters, who kind of changed the world they lived in by almost the force of their personality and their inventiveness. People that I think not only do I admire but I think they're admirable people.

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

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 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

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

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

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

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