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European musicians didn't learn popular music, whereas in America we did, ... So you played in bands, you played in orchestras, you played everything. The high-art/low-art idea, that was a very European idea and not much appreciated in America. People like Cole Porter and Gershwin were considered very important composers. - Philip Glass Quotes

European musicians didn't learn popular music, whereas in America we did, ... So you played in bands, you played in orchestras, you played everything. The high-art/low-art idea, that was a very European idea and not much appreciated in America. People like Cole Porter and Gershwin were considered very important composers.

There were audiences for the first time in living memory. People were discussing modern music. Maybe they liked it and maybe they didn't, but the question of what we were doing suddenly became an urgent one. - Philip Glass Quotes

There were audiences for the first time in living memory. People were discussing modern music. Maybe they liked it and maybe they didn't, but the question of what we were doing suddenly became an urgent one.

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 Quotes

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.

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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 Quotes

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.

American Composer

After Lewis and Clark - Philip Glass Quotes

After Lewis and Clark

Night Stalker. - Philip Glass Quotes

Night

The message in that for me, - Philip Glass Quotes

The message in that for me,

I just thought it was very interesting, ... How do you write a 30-second piece? Everything is extremely compressed. - Philip Glass Quotes

I just thought it was very interesting, ... How do you write a 30-second piece? Everything is extremely compressed.

[This was the future, even if hardly anyone wanted to hear it. But, they were told, they shouldn't worry about that.] Acceptance would not come right away, but the history of music was going down this road and you either got on the train or you didn't, ... And if you didn't get on the train, you would be left behind. - Philip Glass Quotes

[This was the future, even if hardly anyone wanted to hear it. But, they were told, they shouldn't worry about that.] Acceptance would not come right away, but the history of music was going down this road and you either got on the train or you didn't, ... And if you didn't get on the train, you would be left behind.

And then I went back to New York and found other people doing it. A handful of people. - Philip Glass Quotes

And then I went back to New York and found other people doing it. A handful of people.

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