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One hundred guitarists making lots of noise would not be something you'd want to listen to.
The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.
Getting married in 1947 and settling down in Hollywood was the real beginning of my career.
My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.
In electronic music, staying behind your laptop for two hours is not too exciting to watch.
I'm trying to bring a new generation into the musical theater and to create a new audience.
Music's only purpose should be for the glory of God and the recreation of the human spirit.
If we cannot write with the beauty of Mozart, let us at least try to write with his purity.
Still very active And rarely seen apart You're teenage geriatrics Modern and young at heart
As long as there are people trying to play music in a sincere way, there will be some jazz.
Mozart's music is constantly escaping from its frame, because it cannot be contained in it.
Bernstein has been disclosing musical secrets that have been well known for over 400 years.
I'm just like my country, I'm young, scrappy and hungry, and I'm not throwing away my shot.
I would listen to something on the radio and try to tap out the melody, then the harmonies.
All men are forced into one of two categories: those with eleven fingers and those without.
The silver swan, who, living had no note, When death approached unlocked her silent throat.
I would like to thank my father who discouraged me from playing the violin at an early age.
Not for me. If I want to tune everybody out, I just take off my glasses and enjoy the haze.
The reactions music evokes are not feelings, but they are the images, memories of feelings.
A self-respecting artist must not fold his hands on the pretext that he is not in the mood.
Never look encouragingly at the brass, except with a short glance to give an important cue.
It is a truth forever, that where the speech of man stops short there Music's reign begins.
It is impossible to communicate with Schumann. The man is hopeless; he doesn't talk at all.
In order to compose, all you need to do is remember a tune that nobody else has thought of.
If you listen to nature, all the sounds are done in a confident way. I'm trying to do that.
I was with PolyGram; that was the big label that I was with for the longest, like 12 years.
The situation's fraught, Fraughter than I thought, With horrible, impossible possibilities!
I have many names; some call me Mr. Ra, others call me Mr. Re, you can call me Mr. Mystery.
Why does every society seem to want to make music when it often seems like kind of a frill.
Plot is very important to me, but I think my stories are stronger in character development.
Life is something like a trumpet. If you don't put anything in, you won't get anything out.
If I think something is beautiful, there must be somebody out there who will agree with me.
Music is all about transporting people, speaking a language which languages fail to express.
Music that is born complex is not inherently better or worse than music that is born simple.
My studio is fully analog. There's nothing modern. There's not even a computer in my studio.
I am God! I am nothing, I'm play, I am freedom, I am life. I am the boundary, I am the peak.
I put a hell of a lot of myself into 'Love Never Dies,' and I felt quite drained afterwards.
There is no everlasting power in the music of today. Everyone is running after record sales.
I have had other offers before but for my first film, I did not want to do anything too big.
The modern composer is a madman who persists in manufacturing an article which nobody wants.
There are pieces that in the history of music that also make me cry. I'm not ashamed to cry.
You cannot set art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitality, reality, and substance.
Be like the bluebird who never is blue, For he knows from his upbringing what singing can do
I throw ideas out into the open when I really should just be writing them down in a journal.
Everyone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand.
When I was in Paris, all of the German refugees began to flow in and it was a very sad time.
Silences between movements are employed only in order to bring the opposing duo to the fore.
I'm generally pessimistic about the dumbing down of America - especially with summer movies.
I was offered a free villa in Hollywood, but I said no thank you, I prefer to live in Italy.
There was a theft! But, of course, if it was up to me, every two years I would win an Oscar.