31 Quotes by John Eaton

We need it to capture the energy of contemporary life.

Well, opera began with an intent to resuscitate Greek drama, that is, modern opera as we know it.

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

I think a lot of composers get into trouble just making up a plot and expecting an audience to follow that.

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

We need to have as broad a range as possible, because life itself has that kind of range.

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.

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.

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