John Eaton

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.

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.

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

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

Composers, like authors, have a lot in common. Our main goal is to connect with the listener emotionally.

I would've done anything to work with Satyajit Ray.