More - 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.

Philip Glass

 America

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

 Audiences

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

 American Composer

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

 American Composer

After Lewis and Clark

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Night Stalker.

Philip Glass

 Night

The message in that for me,

Philip Glass

 

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

Philip Glass

 

[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

 

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

Philip Glass