Top 21 Quotes by John Eaton

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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