Philip Glass Quotes

However, I began composing as soon as I started taking piano lessons.

I play the piano and write music.

Second edition of Earthworks I have the more traditional compositional approach, namely I write a piece from the piano.

It's part of what I do at my piano - the hymns. And then I write.

I have a hard time writing music when I'm on tour.

My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now.

I usually write my music on a piano, and I really enjoy performing that way, because that actually shows how the music was in my mind before it actually became an electronic song.

I write my songs many times to chord progressions on a piano. Unfortunately, I can't keep playing the piano, so I just record it into the software.

I do love using keyboards and I love writing keyboard parts, but I am not a player in the true sense of the word.

In the olden days, I believe Mozart also improvised on piano, but somehow in the last 200 years, the whole training of Western classical music - they don't read between the lines, they just read the lines.

I am the pianist of the duo, although Aleksey does pretty good... you know we've written more and more stuff where he has to play the piano. But you know, to be very honest, I actually went into music because I wanted to be a composer and a conductor. And piano was just one of the ways to get into that.

I played piano as a kid; I still play a little bit.

My wife is a classically trained piano player, and she also orchestrates.

I write music visually.

I play piano all the time. I'm always at my piano, playing music.

I wanted to play the piano.

I normally write on acoustic guitar, although piano is the instrument that I actually studied. Occasionally, I'll write on the piano or sometimes with no instrument at all.

The creative process of composing music has always fascinated me.

Writing music is very, very clinical. You just sit down at a piano, map out a theme and when all the technicalities come together, out pours the music.

I can't read or write music. When I want to remember something, I try to remember all the keys on the piano. Which is what I still do. I put the numbers on the keys. And that's got to become music again.

I play a lot chamber music.As for something that's hard for me to play, before I leave this Earth I'm hoping to play Brahms' Second Piano Concerto.

I am a classical fan. I like Debussy a lot, so I was trying to learn it on the piano. I've learned like a third of it, but I think I'm getting to a section that may be beyond my skill level.

Whenever I'm done with an album cycle, I still wanna write music. If I'm bored when I'm at home, which never happens, my first instinct is to go to the piano and bang something out.

I play music - I write my own music, but I play music, just background music really, and just let it happen.

I don't play accurately--any one can play accurately--but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life.