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An error is simply a failure to adjust immediately from a preconception to an actuality.
Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.
Anybody can write music of a sort. But touching the public heart is quite another thing.
No nation as young as America can be expected to become immediately a power in the arts.
I was always an outsider, proud of being an outsider. I always reveled in the outsiders.
One of the greatest acts of courage is having to face every day of life feeling unloved.
I think the fact that I created something and had an enormous influence is indisputable.
I don't think performance out of duty yields very much. Coercion is never the way to go.
'The 17 Day Diet' keeps your body and metabolism guessing. I call this 'body confusion.'
The art of translation lies less in knowing the other language than in knowing your own.
The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, but the most difficult to play.
It's not what happens to you in life that matters; what matters is how you deal with it!
I always feel like young people are more emotionally in tune with new and timeless music.
One would be lying if one didn't say that one had melodies that I keep in my back pocket.
As a band gets more successful, there's a danger of falling in love with your own shadow.
One simply turns to the ideological vending machine, and out comes the prepared formulae.
Theater is such a small community that every brilliant piece of theater raises us all up.
The Upper Bohemia people wore tuxedos in an art gallery, and Lower Bohemia was all of us.
When you sit with people and you can hear what they're hearing, that's quite interesting.
Not necessarily in one concert, but they're all there to be used if you want to use them.
Bach is like an astronomer who, with the help of ciphers, finds the most wonderful stars.
Similarly you can make a transition from one set of instruments to another imperceptibly.
I currently spend a lot of time thinking about orchestration and every detail of a piece.
Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.
Never compose anything unless the not composing of it becomes a positive nuisance to you.
My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter.
It's very difficult to be funny musically. I think I achieved It with 'The Pink Panther.'
Do you realize that we're meteorites; almost as soon as we're born, we have to disappear?
Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa Lobos?
Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa-Lobos?
How much do I love you? I'll tell you no lie. How deep is the ocean? How high is the sky?
Technology does not always rhyme with perfection and reliability. Far from it in reality!
Creative industries are more important than the car industry, luxury jewels, and fashion.
Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness.
Which is more musical: a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school?
Ideally, I'd like to be the eternal novice, for then only the surprises would be endless.
One thing you learn: if you want to reveal yourself, you also have to know where to stop.
If you think in terms of topping, you're in the wrong business. You can't think that way.
Remember that I wrote a pavane for a dead princess, and not a dead pavane for a princess!
"The more I live, the more I learn The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know"
I don't really believe that documentary is objective reality and fiction is all illusion.
I was so happy with my bow ties from the last kickstarted project that I'm back for more.
The creative process is like music which takes root with extraordinary force and rapidity
Wagner used to read the libretti of his operas to his friends; I am glad I was not there.
I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing.
You know my faithfulness to you, never can another own my heart, never - never - never...
Everything lives and lasts by the inner necessity of its being, by its own nature's need.
I'm not a minister, I'm not a philosopher, I'm not a politician, I'm in another category.
Everyone seems to be in a kind of accelerated time mode that is beyond their own control.
I've done a lot of operas. I've probably done more different kind of operas than anybody.