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 More Quotes by Philip Glass More Quotes From Philip Glass I don't know what I'm doing and it's the not knowing that makes it interesting. Philip Glass creativity knowing interesting 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 too-much listening You practice and you get better. It's very simple. Philip Glass get-better simple practice 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 ifs You get up early in the morning and you work all day. That’s the only secret. Philip Glass up-early secret morning 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 done knows What I've noticed is that people who love what they do, regardless of what that might be, tend to live longer. Philip Glass might people 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. Philip Glass bases style choices 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 term language use 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 mean america travel 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 minimalist used years What came to me as a revelation was the use of rhythm in developing an overall structure in music. Philip Glass revelations structure use It doesn't need to be imagined, it needs to be written down. Philip Glass written needs 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. Philip Glass symphony play writing If you remember your lineage, you will never feel lonely. Philip Glass lineage lonely remember 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 use people thinking 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 different together world 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 dark character thinking I always knew what I wanted to do and I did it. Philip Glass wanted 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. Philip Glass piano play writing
