Quotes from Philip Glass

the point of writing music and experiencing music isn't to make people comfortable necessarily

Esos innovadores del teatro, Jerzy Grotowski, el director polaco de teatro experimental y autor de Hacia un teatro pobre, Peter Brook, el director inglés, y el Living Theater, el grupo de teatro experimental fundado por Julian Beck

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

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.

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].

I, as a young guy getting out of music school, I didn't like the prospect of spending my life writing music for about 200 people.

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.

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.

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.

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