Author: John Eaton

Quotes

We need to open up the future. We also need to keep everything valuable from the past.

We need to open up the future. We also need to keep everything valuable from the past.

- John Eaton

I've just simply used what I've used because of the great, great expressive potential of it.

I've just simply used what I've used because of the great, great expressive potential of it.

- John Eaton

We need it to capture the energy of contemporary life.

We need it to capture the energy of contemporary life.

- John Eaton

Nevertheless, one doesn't have time to think, oh, well, this is a quarter tone sharp, or flat.

Nevertheless, one doesn't have time to think, oh, well, this is a quarter tone sharp, or flat.

- John Eaton

Well, the very best operas are the ones written by the very best composers.

Well, the very best operas are the ones written by the very best composers.

- John Eaton

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.

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.

- John Eaton

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.

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.

- John Eaton

I want the audience to be so involved in the sweep of the music.

I want the audience to be so involved in the sweep of the music.

- John Eaton

The way that I got involved with microtonal music was, frankly, through jazz.

The way that I got involved with microtonal music was, frankly, through jazz.

- John Eaton

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