Quotes by Eric Whitacre - Page 1

A really good poem is full of music.
Eric Whitacre / Composer
Poem
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I don't feel like I'm an artist with a capital 'A.'
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Capital
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I'm not an atheist, but I'm not a Christian, either.
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Either
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Write the music your inside-you needs your outside-you to hear.
Eric Whitacre / Composer
Needs
Writing
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I think [the virtual choir] speaks well to a benevolent future for the Internet.
Eric Whitacre / Composer
Internet
Speak
Thinking
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I write music that sounds complex but isn't. I frankly never think in terms of theory.
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Theory
Complex
Frankly
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For the first six or eight months at Juilliard I felt paralysed. I didn't know what I was doing.
Eric Whitacre / Composer
Eight
Juilliard
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The terror of performing never goes away. Instead, you get very, very comfortable being terrified.
Eric Whitacre / Composer
Composer
Feelings
Going Away
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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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Optimistic
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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.
Eric Whitacre / Composer
Community
People
Thinking
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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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Sneak
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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.
Eric Whitacre / Composer
Feelings
Nerves
Stress
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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.
Eric Whitacre / Composer
Choir
Pop Music
Rehearsal
Joined
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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.
Eric Whitacre / Composer
Experience Music Always
Connection
Deeply
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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.
Eric Whitacre / Composer
Choir
Tribes
Me Internet People
Anyway
Builds
Internet Me People
Virtual
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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.
Eric Whitacre / Composer
Chaotic
Neat
Seems
Totally
Course
Period
Scattered
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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.
Eric Whitacre / Composer
Borders
Choir
Different Countries
Signing
Singers
Skype
Real Time
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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.
Eric Whitacre / Composer
Nowhere
Choirs
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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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Intimidated
Inviting
Las Vegas
Magnitude
Vegas
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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.
Eric Whitacre / Composer
Exquisite
Giggle
Singing
Tears
Way
Close
Experiences
Harmonies
Physical
Tear
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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.
Eric Whitacre / Composer
Chorus
Cry
Hearts
Sleeve
Tends
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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.
Eric Whitacre / Composer
Believe
Compassion
Mechanism
Phenomenon
Physiological
Psychological
Spiritual
Cultivate
Designed
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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.
Eric Whitacre / Composer
Choir
Las Vegas
Nevada
Requiem
Vegas
Life My Life Singing
First Thing
Mozart
Overnight
The First Thing
Tricked
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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.
Eric Whitacre / Composer
Artistic
Artistic Expression
Choir
Evident
Expression
Genuine
Live Music
Music Focus Me
Corps
End Of The Day
Intent
Replace
Virtual
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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.
Eric Whitacre / Composer
Accurate
Fifth
Rock Star
Depeche
Dreamed
Duran
Member
Mode
Pop Star
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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.
Eric Whitacre / Composer
Physiological
Response
Chills
Ideally
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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.'
Eric Whitacre / Composer
Finale
Paper
Software
Composers
Music New Way
Programs
New Way
Pencil
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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.
Eric Whitacre / Composer
Advantage
Classical Music
Green
Unorthodox
Classical
Concept
Deliberately
Electronic
Entirely
Utterly
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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.
Eric Whitacre / Composer
Clean
Composing
Pristine
Pure
Love Music Listening
Love Music Influence
Biggest Influence
Choirs
Recordings
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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.
Eric Whitacre / Composer
Brilliant
Humankind
Irony
Requiem
Beethoven
Ninth
Queen
Mozart
Simon
Sung
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With vocal and choral music, first and foremost, it's the text. Not only do I need to serve the text, but the text - when I'm doing it right - acts as the perfect 'blueprint', and all the architecture is there. The poet has done the heavy lifting, so my job is to find the soul of the poem and then somehow translate that into music.
Eric Whitacre / Composer
Architecture
Heavy
Lifting
Perfect
Translate
Vocal
Acts
Blueprint
Foremost
Poem
Serve
Text
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