top of page
.png){kind=small}
"I want the audience to be so involved in the sweep of the music."
Standard
Customized
Explore more quotes by John Eaton
"I've just simply used what I've used because of the great, great expressive potential of it."
"I think a lot of composers get into trouble just making up a plot and expecting an audience to follow that."
"I think one of the greatest enemies in the use of technology, however, is the idea that if you use the technology you have to throw other things out of the window."
"Well, opera began with an intent to resuscitate Greek drama, that is, modern opera as we know it."
"What's important for me is to communicate the vision that I have in sound with the audience that's hearing it."
"If you look at the timing of many of the Greek dramas from the theatrical point of view, it's all off, and I think the reason for that is that music played a very important part."
"But nevertheless, it's music ultimately that matters in opera, and opera is a piece of music reaching out as a vision in sound reaching out to the world."
Exlpore more Music quotes
"One must indeed test the strings to this life, bounce the bow, wet the mouthpiece, prepare for the deeper music that follows."
"There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is."
"Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness."
"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."
"Miranda raised her eyebrows. Apparently she hadn't figured me for a country music fan. I liked her for that."
"Music reveals the deepest beauty of the soul."
bottom of page