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Mozart encompasses the entire domain of musical creation, but I've got only the keyboard in my poor head.
Perhaps of all the most basic elements of music, rhythm most directly affects our central nervous system.
At the premieres, I always watch the audience. If a child asks to go to the bathroom, I know I've failed.
I have a heart problem, so I have to simplify my life and be content with memories and friends and music.
I would like to read some books: I don't have time; I would like to continue working on my autobiography.
When I was younger I was completely without money - when I was studying in Budapest, when I was a refugee
All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
Snowden has demonstrated true love for his country. He has done something to improve the lives of people.
People who do music do it because it is all they can do. And that's me, I suppose. I can do nothing else.
We must have recourse to the rules of music when our genius and our ear seem to deny what we are seeking.
I'm just a little bit tired If you know what I mean Don't want to be in a crowd When I can be in a dream.
It is a real pleasure to see music so bright and spontaneous expressed with corresponding ease and grace.
It is not hard to compose, but what is fabulously hard is to leave the superfluous notes under the table.
Some people take music too seriously, and some don't take it seriously enough, others take it just right.
I have always believed that 98% of a student's progress is due to his own efforts, and 2% to his teacher.
Take life with a pinch of salt A shot of tequila and a wedge of lime Do nothing at all But take your time
I was horrible at everything I ever tried to do and people respect me. The American Dream has come true!!
Most jazz players work out their solos, at least to the extent that they have a very specific vocabulary.
It was 100 percent music. There was no ego involved, no attitudes, no black and white, it was pure music.
It was a real dream come true just to get the job [in Moana], and yeah, and we sort of got right to work.
The fun for me in collaboration is, one, working with other people just makes you smarter; that's proven.
He who understand my music will remain free from the miseries that the other men are dragging with them .
In the nineteenth century the more grandiose word inspiration began to replace the word idea in the arts.
Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading.
If a composer could state in words what being a composer means, he would no longer need to be a composer.
Up through and including Lincoln, American politicians nursed a fantasy of repatriating blacks to Africa.
That's software in the States that I helped to develop. It enables people with disabilities to improvise.
If you don't get feedback from your performers and your audience, you're going to be working in a vacuum.
Endeavour to play easy pieces well and with elegance; that is better than to play difficult pieces badly.
Versification is, indeed, indispensable for music, but rhyme, solely for rhyming's sake, most pernicious.
My music sounds different because the techniques are archaic, seeing as most people only record digitally.
You cannot help but notice that schools that take music seriously tend to be more academically successful.
There's no getting around it: Writing is hard, while working with young performers is nearly always a joy.
I haven't written a score that's going to change the Western world or the musical as we presently know it.
I feel happier knowing a starting point came from me. And I like stuff that gives you a physical reaction.
I'm not a good enough musician to like completely master something in a couple of days and turn it around.
By the grace of God and with His help, I shall one day be a Liszt in technique and a Mozart in composition
In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking but now, God knows, anything goes.
Almost every one of my various zero numbered birthdays has had a big concert in London and often in Paris.
A theatre receives recognition through its initiative, which is indispensable for first-rate performances.
I have become a different person. I don't know whether this person is better, he certainly is not happier.
When I was younger I was completely without money - when I was studying in Budapest, when I was a refugee.
Stravinsky influenced film music in general - those stabbing chords and rhythms from 'The Rite of Spring.'
You're 60 But honestly it doesn't show Mind you, you reached the age of consent About 50,000 consents ago!
Working against a restriction - for me - often produces greater things than getting rid of all boundaries.
You know what's a great way of tricking people into thinking you're a genius? Write a show about geniuses!
What was great about the 50s is that for one brief moment - maybe, say, six weeks - nobody understood art.
My faith is the grand drama of my life. I'm a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have no faith.
The most difficult problem in conducting is intonation. You must know what is wrong and how to correct it.
There's only just so much you can do; I prefer to do only a couple of things and go to some depth in them.