Top 36 Eric Whitacre Quotes
#1. I'm not an atheist, but I'm not a Christian, either.
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#2. For me, the virtual choir has taught me that, if anything, the Internet builds these post-national tribes, people finding each other anyway they can.
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#3. 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.
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#4. Singing is and always will be a part of my life.
Tammin Sursok
#5. The Spirit reveals, unfolds, takes of the things of Christ and shows them to us, and prepares us to be more than a match for Satanic forces.
Smith Wigglesworth
#6. Write the music your inside-you needs your outside-you to hear.
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#7. People in chorus tends to be much more emotional or at least wear their hearts on their sleeve. They are generally the kind to hold hands and cry. It's just a different personality type.
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#8. As a composer, I know that all sorts of sounds I hear are making their way into my brain and soul and later sneak into my music.
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#9. A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.
Cesare Pavese
#10. The virtual choir would never replace live music or a real choir, but the same sort of focus and intent and esprit de corps is evident in both, and at the end of the day it seems to me a genuine artistic expression.
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#11. Many composers use software to write music - programs like Finale or Sibelius. There are also recording programs. I should say I'm still very old-fashioned, I still use pencil and paper. But almost every composer I know does it the 'new way.'
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#12. For the first six or eight months at Juilliard I felt paralysed. I didn't know what I was doing.
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#13. I think [the virtual choir] speaks well to a benevolent future for the Internet.
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#14. If you're looking to make a basic living selling and playing your music, the Internet is all you really need.
Kina Grannis
#15. 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.
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#16. I don't feel like I'm an artist with a capital 'A.'
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#18. The terror of performing never goes away. Instead, you get very, very comfortable being terrified.
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#19. In Las Vegas, the magnitude is impressive, but the humanity is gone. It feels like you're being intimidated out of your money instead of inviting you to come have this experience.
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#20. I truly thought I was going to be in pop music. And then I joined a choir to meet girls, and everything changed in the first rehearsal.
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#21. To have a live choir there on the stage and then these singers from different countries signing with us in real time through Skype, it's as if there aren't borders anymore.
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#22. 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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#23. I write music that sounds complex but isn't. I frankly never think in terms of theory.
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#24. 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.
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#25. Making an album can be like being pregnant: you want to pop that thing out and show everybody!
Julian Casablancas
#26. Nerves, stress and the pressure to perform are a part of life. You don't have to conquer these feelings; just learn to live with them.
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#27. Since I first fell in love with choral music when I was 18 and began composing at 21, I've been listening to these recordings of British choirs. I just fell in love with that sound - that pure, clean, pristine sound - and I think it's probably been the biggest influence on my sound.
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#28. I was very active. I was always all over the place trying to do a million things, just into this activity. If you asked me when I was 14 what I wanted to be: "Activist, first, is my occupation. I am an activist."
Lauryn Hill
#29. When I went to college at the University of Nevada back in Las Vegas, I got tricked into singing in choir. The first thing we did was the Mozart 'Requiem.' That was the piece that changed my life overnight.
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#30. 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.
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#31. 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.
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#32. 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.
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#33. Charles Dickens said, It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens the temper - so cry away.
Jan Karon
#34. I don't know if it is a spiritual, physiological or psychological phenomenon, but I believe now more than ever that singing is a universal, built-in mechanism designed to cultivate empathy and compassion.
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#35. When I think of people I am close to, I genuinely feel that I can include Josh Lyman, Toby Ziegler, C.J. Cregg and Sam Seaborn.
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#36. I'm a self-confessed geek, and my whole concept of music at first was entirely electronic. In many ways, it turned out to be an advantage. I was so green, so utterly naive about the nature of classical music, that I did things that made me look totally, deliberately unorthodox.
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