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Never trust anyone who wants what you've got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion.
The earth is suffocating... Swear to make them cut me open, so that I won't be buried alive.
Jazz is one of the best things that you can find in your life, it can always be your friend.
Time, time - that is our greatest master! Alas, like Ugolino, time devours its own children.
You can't write a song out of thin air you have to feel and know what you are writing about.
Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.
Never criticize the composition of a Royal Highness. You never know who may have written it.
Kind words are such a blessing to the needful, if one but knew the pleasure that they bring.
Wherever you may go Wherever you may have been Saying goodbye is fine If you say hello again
I have no doubts. I know what gets in the way and I know what encourages me to do more work.
When I think upon my God, my heart is full of joy that the notes dance and leap from my pen.
When you're up against an electric band like that, it's like you're on two separate planets.
My rhymes are gonna kill, so I suggest you write your will and leave your [expletive] to me.
You've got to stop eating unhealthy crap. You've got to eat vegetables, fruit and lean meat.
I’ve always felt that music should be a normal part of the experience that surrounds people.
It's not a special taste. An American composer should have something to say to a cab driver.
I've always felt that music should be a normal part of the experience that surrounds people.
The only effort worth making is the one it takes to learn the geography of one's own nature.
I often wonder if I was destined to be a composer. I think I decided and I followed my star.
I don't want to own her, but I can't let her have it both ways. There is one too many of us.
I'm playing dark history. It's beyond black. I'm dealing with the dark things of the cosmos.
I think it was more personal, but I certainly tried to adapt certain concepts of Surrealism.
I'm a post-Abner Jay kind of guy mixed with Roger Corman and Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers.
Sometimes one can be so closely involved with things that the larger context is lost to view.
I often use the same harmonies as pop music because the complexity of what I do is elsewhere.
When you write the story of two happy lovers, let the story be set on the banks of Lake Como.
I work very fast, keeping the ideas flowing but making sure they come out the way I intended.
As interesting as that music can occasionally be, I don't think it really replaces the other.
Waiting and hoping are the whole of life, and as soon as a dream is realized it is destroyed.
There is no room in music for the second-rate - it might just as well be the nineteenth-rate.
Though it's cold and lonely in the deep dark night I can see paradise by the dashboard light.
Ah! How sweet coffee tastes! Lovelier than a thousand kisses, sweeter far than muscatel wine!
That's what I love about film scoring. Every situation is new. Every show is a new adventure.
I don't like recording studios - except my own, which is just a little room above the garage.
I listen to classical music very much. There's a lot of jazz that I don't enjoy listening to.
It's June in January Because I'm in love It always is spring in my heart with you in my arms.
I can't live one day without hearing music, playing it , studying it , or thinking about it .
I've had a little Hollywood experience, and there's nothing like the Disney story experience.
I still do not know where the notes will come from when I accept a commission for a new work.
If I'm within reach and can be helpful, I have a tendency to say 'Yes.' It's hard to say 'No.
Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score.
I never understood what rules I was supposed to learn, and what rules I was supposed to break
The beautiful are shyer than the ugly, for they move in a world that does not ask for beauty.
I had to cope with attitudes that were not supportive all along. I mean, you still have that.
I do not eat meat, I do not smoke, and I do not drink, and therefore, I do not feel the cold.
Mozart is the highest, the culminating point that beauty has attained in the sphere of music.
On conducting: If you can just barely hear the French horns on stage, the balance is perfect.
You may know what you need, but to get what you want, better see that you keep what you have.
I had grown up and gone to high school in New York, so I wanted to get out of the east coast.
Life is like a trumpet - if you don't put anything into it, you don't get anything out of it.