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Brief about John Eaton: By info that we know John Eaton was born at 1970-01-01. And also John Eaton is American Politician.

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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.

Tags: Matters, Music, Vision

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

Tags: Flat, Oh, Time

I really write for people.

Tags: Write

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

Tags: Follow, Making, Trouble

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

Tags: Electronic, Modern, Sound

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

Tags: Audience, Involved, Music

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

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

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

Tags: Involved, Jazz, Music

We need it to capture the energy of contemporary life.

Tags: Capture, Energy, Life

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

Tags: Broad, Life, Possible

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

Tags: Future, Keep, Past

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

Tags: Composer, Theorist

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

Tags: Drama, Modern, Opera

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

Tags: Best, Composers, Written

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.

Tags: Become, Hope, Music

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.

Tags: Greatest, Idea, Technology

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.

Tags: American, Audience, Real

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.

Tags: Action, Music, Thinking

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.

Tags: Music, Off, Reason
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