Philip Glass Quotes

My biggest problem about writing is whenever I write piano pieces, because I then have to learn to play them, which is sometimes not so easy.

Philip Glass

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• My biggest problem about writing is whenever I write piano pieces, because I then have to learn to play them, which is sometimes not so easy.

  

  Philip Glass
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  • Write