Eric Whitacre Quotes

I love celebrating music in different and unique ways.

When I act, I feel like I am a color in someone else's painting - I can be the best blue that there is, but I'm still only part of their entire picture - but, with music, when I am performing with Reserved For Rondee, I am the painter, you know?

One of the things I like about making stuff in the age of the Internet, is that people make stuff in response to it. You can see people respond to your work visually or musically or with writing.

The best part of touring is the opportunity to make the music. You get to do what you love and have the ability to go out on stage every night and create.

I was rather disappointed, because the one thing I wanted to gain from that opportunity was to add something to his music, and have him add something to mine.

To me, music is music, and it's not limited by the medium; it just encompasses everything.

I feel like every project I've ever done has had music involved in it somehow.

Music is a reservoir... of sounds.

When you talk or write or film, you work with the music inside you, the music that formed you. Different generations have different musics in them, so whatever they do, it's going to come out differently, and it will speak in beats of their own generation.

If you do performance and music, it's not performance as music.

Maybe with your emotions and your feelings, someone else can say it in a different way than you would, which brings new life to the way you might sing it.

For me, the best thing I can do is play live. The best way for me to put over what I'm trying to do is to play live. Whether it's an acoustic show, electric or whatever... if I shine at all, that's where it all really happens - it just took me a while to rediscover that.

When you're playing, you're playing something for the world to hear.

I've been singing since I was five. It's my identity.

I have all of these lives that I want the music to live, but at the end of the day, it's out there.

Orchestras are like people. They're the sonic embodiment of their community.

First, I started with music singing, writing songs, playing music. Later, I got into acting. I'm not a brilliant musician or a brilliant actor. But, to me, they're still great vehicles for expression.

Rock n' roll is the music where you can get away with pretty much saying everything, and it's OK. You can say truths in really interesting and good ways and really express yourself through it.

Music should not be a contest, it should be an individual thing that each band is putting out from within themselves.

Playing live is great, but it's not a creative thing, really. It's a reproductive thing.

We're a band that really... It's important to us to write music and put it out there and to work together.

I've always considered rock 'n' roll, the music and the dancing, an art form.

Through our concerts and tours, we learned that our music is capable of bringing people together, breaking borders and genres. To symbolize all of that, we decided to sing 'The One' in English.

One of the most extraordinary and all-encompassing forms of communication is music. It reaches places that all kinds of other things cannot reach. I'll put my cards on the table: I think it is our greatest language.

In music, there is no country; there is no time.