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A really good poem is full of music.

~Eric Whitacre

Topics: Full Good Music Poem Really

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The virtual choir would never replace live music or a real choir, but the same sort of focus and intent and esprit de corps is evident in both, and at the end of the day it seems to me a genuine artistic expression.

~Eric Whitacre

Topics: Artistic Artistic Expression Both Choir Corps Day End End Of The Day Evident Expression Focus Genuine Intent Live Live Music Me Music Never Real Replace Same Seems Sort Virtual Would

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For the first six or eight months at Juilliard I felt paralysed. I didn't know what I was doing.

~Eric Whitacre

Topics: Doing Eight Felt First Juilliard Know Months Six

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For me, the virtual choir has taught me that, if anything, the Internet builds these post-national tribes, people finding each other anyway they can.

~Eric Whitacre

Topics: Anything Anyway Builds Choir Each Finding Internet Me Other People Taught Tribes Virtual

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I happen to be one of the people who believe that the Internet is a force of good, and I'm very optimistic about it.

~Eric Whitacre

Topics: About Believe Force Good Happen Internet Optimistic People Very Who

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There must be four or five hundred choirs here in London alone. In a way, there's nowhere else on Earth I could go and get this level and passion for singing in the one place.

~Eric Whitacre

Topics: Alone Choirs Could Earth Else Five Four Get Go Here Hundred Level London Must Nowhere Passion Place Singing Way

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I truly thought I was going to be in pop music. And then I joined a choir to meet girls, and everything changed in the first rehearsal.

~Eric Whitacre

Topics: Changed Choir Everything First Girl Going Joined Meet Music Pop Pop Music Rehearsal Then Thought Truly

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I don't feel like I'm an artist with a capital 'A.'

~Eric Whitacre

Topics: Artist Capital Feel Like

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I wanted to be a rock star. I dreamed of it, and that's all I dreamed of. To be more accurate, I wanted to be a pop star. This was in the late '80s. And mostly, I wanted to be the fifth member of Depeche Mode or Duran Duran.

~Eric Whitacre

Topics: Accurate Dreamed Fifth Late Member Mode More Mostly Pop Pop Star Rock Rock Star Star Wanted

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To have a live choir there on the stage and then these singers from different countries signing with us in real time through Skype, it's as if there aren't borders anymore.

~Eric Whitacre

Topics: Anymore Borders Choir Countries Different Different Countries Live Real Real Time Signing Singers Skype Stage Then Through Time Us

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Composer

Born: January 2nd, 1970

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