Philip Glass Quotes

Let's have some new cliches.

I don't think anyone really says anything new.

If you want to talk about something new, you have to make up a new kind of language.

Every really new idea looks crazy at first.

It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.

Never forget that what becomes timeless was once truly new.

It's a new game now, you know, you have to bring some fresh stuff.

Generally what I produce is new. Of course, they are often variations on the same subject.

An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.

I always tend to favor the newer idea.

Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.

What makes our world so fascinating is that continuously there are novel and creative ideas spurring people to leave old ways and try something new.

I always naturally want to change things up if I possibly can. I never want to write a sequel to a book. I don't want to go back over things. I don't want to adapt my own books for the screen. That's something that's important to me, the keeping it fresh.

Imagine something new, or you will only go where you have been.

If it's genuinely new, when people are hearing it, they're not really gonna be comfortable because they haven't heard it a thousand times before.

We do worry that we might be making something we've made before. It's important that we make something we've never made before.

What I feel like science fiction fans respond to is just people trying to hit them with something new, something they haven't seen. And if you do that you'll be okay.

Nobody's interested in something that could've been done before.

I didn't want to write the same book over and over.

There's always a way to say something that could seem really commonplace and make it special again.

Every time we create something new we go from zero to one.

Anything new, anything worth doing, can't be recognized.

You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed.

The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.

I often recall these words when I am writing, and I think to myself, “It’s true. There aren’t any new words. Our job is to give new meanings and special overtones to absolutely ordinary words.” I find the thought reassuring. It means that vast, unknown stretches still lie before us, fertile territories just waiting for us to cultivate them.