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If there is a Busta Rhymes of musical theater, it probably is Mandy Patinkin.
I will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me.
Don't regard yourself as too divine to improve, occasionally, your own works.
Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.
To study music, we must learn the rules. To create music, we must break them.
Listening is not the same as hearing and hearing is not the same as listening
The room where I am lodging is stupendous. Thank God I am as fit as a fiddle.
In contrast to reincarnation and karma, all other views seem petty and narrow
I really don't want to write a score until the whole show is cast and staged.
As a matter of fact, I personally would much rather hear Perotin than Mozart.
My work on hyper instruments started with simple instruments, like the piano.
To win applause one must write stuff so simple that a coachman might sing it.
You can't be without passion. Passion means the possessiveness to be the best.
Generally, as a composer, it's perceived as an employer-employee relationship.
Being an old radical, I like films like Spartacus. I could relate to the hero.
It's always the same: mediocrities are over-valued and great men are rejected.
Art is a product of nature in general, in the particular form of human nature.
Working with Bob Weir directly, we learned how high the bar is for Dead music.
Music is good, not evil. Poetry is good, not evil. Primitive, but oh, so true!
Now I can say loudly and openly what I have been saying to myself on my knees.
It had a very good arrangement by Herbie Hancock, but it used existing pieces.
I am composing like a god, as if it simply had to be done as it has been done.
Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.
Over the years I have tried to develop something which is technically assured.
You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion.
Music doesn't argue, discuss, or quarrel. It just breathes the air of freedom.
My childhood was absolutely the worst place I've ever been," "It was terrible.
The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck.
The world would not be in such a snarl, had Marx been Groucho instead of Karl.
I've been doing a lot of music for films and television for quite a few years.
My daughter is my greatest gift and, not to be corny, but my greatest teacher.
I certainly did my best to bring the story [Anthem] to life in another medium.
I worked hard. Anyone who works as hard as I did can achieve the same results.
Don't try to create and analyze at the same time. They're different processes.
All God's religions ... have not been able to put mankind back together again.
I believe that nothing in life is unimportant every moment can be a beginning.
The average music-lover hears only the production under prevailing conditions.
I have wit in my work and a sense of humor, but I do not use irony in any way.
I actually get a metallic taste in my mouth when I think about electric music.
It doesn't necessarily mean at all that the composer plays his own works best.
The distance between where I am and where I want to be seems impossibly large.
Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
Oh, how beautiful it is to be alive - would that I could live a thousand times
I can make a song up about anything: garbage, the weather, things in the news.
This is something special. You can attempt to have a kind of non-living music.
Music is that great language where a lot can be said and little can be proven.
There are only two things worth aiming for, good music and a clean conscience.
No baritone player should be afraid of the noise it makes. Harry Carney isn't!
Many's the man/ who thought himself wise/ but what he needed/ he did not know.
I've been sampled so much and I'm glad it's happened, it's a great compliment.