Eric Whitacre Quotes
I can't write music unless I'm deeply connected to it and that connection almost always comes from some experience that I have had or am having.
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I wake up late, say 10 or 11, because we've usually been out and about town until 2 or 3 A.M. listening to music at the jazz clubs or hitting the jazz clubs post-theater.
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When you have that connection to say, 'I'm going to play for something bigger than myself,' man, you have a chance to do something good.
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
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This can sound as something naive. But if we are together in this union, it's because we choose to be one in many things. That's what makes the European Union experience so challenging and also a model. Why did we do this choice? Because we see that we share a common interest and common values.
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All my life, I've been working with male directors, which I've really enjoyed. And I'm lucky in that I've worked with men who have a lot of respect for women. But working with a woman is a different experience. It feels like the communication is different.
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Music history has flowed under the bridges for many years.
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If there's anything that would unite the world, it would be music.
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This experience has also humbled me by giving me a true understanding of what millions of others face each day in their own fight against cancer.
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People place such importance on the external. It's disgusting.
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I just love, love going around and traveling and bringing the music to people. They just make you feel so happy that you came.
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The perfect day for me is waking up and having a cup of tea with my kids before I drive them to school; Then, I go into the studio and try and write some music for three or four hours and give up about noon.
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I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown table.
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I don't have specific music for when I'm writing. I'm usually listening to the same playlist or 'artist' before I arrive at the computer as when I'm walking somewhere after leaving the computer.
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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
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Anyone who still supports George Bush would still let Michael Jackson babysit their kids.
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I just do what I'm here for and that's to make that music.
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I was a big music fan, but I never bought a bunch of records or was very educated, I guess, on who was who or what was what.
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Music used to be a lot more about angst for me. Now it's the only form of meditation I do.
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When I worked with Keira Knightley in 'Never Let Me Go,' I learned how to be classy and sophisticated.
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BP had a lease to drill. They did not have a lease to pollute the Gulf of Mexico. They did not have a lease to blow oil into the environment. They did not have a lease to disperse the oil and try to hide the body. They don't have a lease to clean up.
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I like to do the research of history and the creativity of writing fiction. I am creating this thing which I think is twice as difficult as writing either history or fiction.
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I'm an avid reader myself, and what any one reader accesses at any one time is very powerful and personal to them. Clearly you can't even begin to touch that. A novel is a singular vision, and then a myriad of readers have their own experience of that.
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If Gone With the Wind has a theme it is that of survival. What makes some people come through catastrophes and others, apparently just as able, strong, and brave, go under? It happens in every upheaval. Some people survive; others don't. What qualities are in those who fight their way through triumphantly that are lacking in those that go under? I only know that survivors used to call that quality 'gumption.' So I wrote about people who had gumption and people who didn't.
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I can't write music unless I'm deeply connected to it and that connection almost always comes from some experience that I have had or am having.
