Quotes: Philip Glass

"We understand the world because of the way we were taught to see."

–– Philip Glass (b. 1937), American composer and musician 

via: Commonplace Book 2024, p. 29.

Quotes: Philip Glass

"If you don't know what to do, there's actually a chance of doing something new. As long as you know what you're doing, nothing much of interest is going to happen." 

–– Philip Glass (b. 1937), American composer and musician 

via: Commonplace Book 2024, p. 29.

Quotes: Philip Glass

"I sometimes hear about work described in terms of 'originality' or 'breakthrough,' but my personal experience is quite different. For me, music has always been about lineage. The past is reinvented and becomes the future. But the lineage is everything." 

–– Philip Glass (b. 1937), American composer and musician 

Source: Austin Kleon October 5, 2018. 

via: Sketchbook 30, 2018, p. 67.