Eric Whitacre Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“A really good poem is full of music.”

“I don't feel like I'm an artist with a capital 'A.'”

“I happen to be one of the people who believe that the Internet is a force of good, and I'm very optimistic about it.”

“There must be four or five hundred choirs here in London alone. In a way, there's nowhere else on Earth I could go and get this level and passion for singing in the one place.”

“When I had my first experiences of choral singing, the dissonance of those close harmonies was so exquisite that I would giggle or I would tear up, and I felt it in a physical way.”

“I wouldn't say that I'm actually trying to cause chills in the audience, but certainly my goal is to, at the very least, effect a physiological response - at the most, to effect some sort of state change, ideally, in the audience.”

“I'm not a culture snob. So while, of course, I think the Mozart 'Requiem' or, say, Beethoven's 'Ninth' are some of the greatest works of art in the history of humankind, that's not to say the Beatles or Queen or Simon and Garfunkel aren't brilliant, beautiful, important works of art that should be sung without a sense of irony.”

“When you look back on music history, it falls into these neat periods, but of course, the period you yourself are living through seems totally scattered and chaotic.”

“For the first six or eight months at Juilliard I felt paralysed. I didn't know what I was doing.”

“I wanted to be a rock star. I dreamed of it, and that's all I dreamed of. To be more accurate, I wanted to be a pop star. This was in the late '80s. And mostly, I wanted to be the fifth member of Depeche Mode or Duran Duran.”