31 Quotes by John Eaton

Well, let me, first of all, say, that as a microtonal composer, I've never been much of a theorist.

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

It's not important to me to found a school; it's not important to me to have disciples.

I think I was first to do live performances on a modern electronic sound synthesizer.

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

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

I think the composer and production staff of an opera have a real responsibility to use visual elements of all kinds to make clear to the American audience, at any rate, exactly what is going on.

However, yes, especially as one gets older, you know, you really hope that your music will become more generally available, even though some of the performances might be riddled with faults.

I'm thinking in terms of a point of departure, a field of action for performers to express an expressive need of mine which hopefully the context of music would convey.