31 Quotes by John Eaton

If you look at the timing of many of the Greek dramas from the theatrical point of view, it's all off, and I think the reason for that is that music played a very important part.

In other words, I think that if an audience listens to something as an experience of how in tune it is or something of that kind, that the whole point is somehow being missed, and the music has failed.

Of course, in opera, you involve the audience so much with action and with what's happening on stage, that the music is the center of that action.

I wish that every opera company in America had a VOX season. There is nothing more helpful in making the public aware of the richness and variety of operatic music being written today. The composers represent the entire country. In fact, I would go so far as to say that the VOX season is a National Treasure!

What's important for me is to communicate the vision that I have in sound with the audience that's hearing it.

Well, I can't agree with you more, and I really wish every piece of mine were recorded, and I wish I had spent more time trying to pursue that.

I wait until something is really in the shape that I want to make it as a permanent record, because I think of recording as a permanent record.

So, to me, it's a question of not being afraid to embrace the tradition but also not being afraid to dive into boiling oil on occasion.

At least for now the canyon is preserved.