Eric Whitacre Quotes
I write music that sounds complex but isn't. I frankly never think in terms of theory.
Eric Whitacre
Quotes to Explore
-
It always surprises me when donors who operate successful businesses assume that just building a school structure means that a community now has access to education. When creating a business, does renting an office space now mean that you're producing goods, training staff and generating revenues?
Adam Braun
-
I never thought I wouldn't succeed. Not because I thought I was good-looking - I just thought I would make it.
Babette March
-
I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.
Walter Martin
-
Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.
Walt Whitman
-
To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
Wendell Berry
-
Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
Samuel Beckett
-
I play guitar, the ukulele and the piano. I grew up on a mountain in Tennessee, and we had 'The Mountain Opry,' where anyone could just get up on stage to perform. It was just about the soul and heart of music. My upbringing was less about being great and more about just doing what you love. It was always for joy.
Rachel Boston
-
Within each individual young person you meet, you have the same fields to plow. The trick is just to wake thmem up, to sharpen their ears for what's already there in the music.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
-
Certainly being in California has encouraged a sustained commitment to rethinking the nature, purposes, and relevance of the contemporary arts, specifically music, for a society which by and large seems to manage quite well without them.
Brian Ferneyhough
-
When you have unity, I think it squares the reach or power of the work.
Joel Sternfeld
-
My inspiration can come from anything - films, the street, paparazzi pictures.
Craig McDean
-
I write music that sounds complex but isn't. I frankly never think in terms of theory.
Eric Whitacre
