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Art was not created as a way to riches. Strive to become a true artist; all else will take care of itself.
I'm a lazy writer. My idea of heaven is not writing. On the other hand, I'm obviously compulsive about it.
When I was growing up, there was no such thing as Off-Broadway. You either got your show on or you didn't.
Lost is our freedom When we submit to women so: Why do we need 'em When, in their best, they work our woe?
I think in many ways, the texture of technology actually diminishes human beings. It doesn't augment them.
In Paris, you learn wit, in London you learn to crush your social rivals, and in Florence you learn poise.
Setting my mind on a musical instrument was like falling in love. All the world seemed bright and changed.
After I had prostate cancer, I had something which was misdiagnosed which led to a load of back operations.
Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.
Every great inspiration is but an experiment - though every experiment we know, is not a great inspiration.
It sounds really stupid, I hate making cosmic comments like this but, I just let it do what it wants to do.
The real geniuses know where their writing has to be good and where they can get away with some mediocrity.
You can see my decision as either a distinctive factor or as a limitation. I don't feel it is a limitation.
if you take passionate interest in a subject, it is hard not to believe yourself specially equipped for it.
Now I have finished with all earthly business, and high time too. Yes, yes, my dear child, now comes death.
I am not fond of speaking about politics because I don't have in my possession an army of 200,000 soldiers.
Inspiration is enough to give expression to the tone in singing, especially when the song is without words.
The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention.
It sounds simple, of course, but personally I can think of no more mentally arduous task than making music.
My primary calling, I always knew since the age of 11, was as a composer, and so that had to take priority.
I play citified Count Basie piano. As few notes as possible, my left hand in my pocket, that kind of stuff.
A patriotic song is an emotion and you must not embarrass an audience with it, or they will hate your guts.
I had no precise plan when I started 'Electronica,' but I think it has been a very positive journey for me.
There are some good people in it, but the orchestra as a whole is equivalent to a gang bent on destruction.
Don't be pessimistic Because, today, the sun hasn't shone It probably won't next year And you'll then be 61
Repetition is based on body rhythms, so we identify with the heartbeat, or with walking, or with breathing.
I'm past patiently waitin,' I'm passionately smashin' every expectation, every action's an act of creation.
Great music does not just make me feel good. It means something. It makes us understand. It makes us happy.
Now, I'm the only living member of that group. There was the six of us originally and they're now all gone.
There were birds in the sky, but I never saw them winging, No I never saw them at all, Until there was you.
I definitely believe in the energy of the set and the energy of the actor, way more than your written word.
Divine fires do not blaze each day but an artist functions in their afterglow, hoping for their recurrence.
Divine fires do not blaze each day, but an artist functions in their afterglow hoping for their recurrence.
Charisma is the intangible that makes people want to follow you, to be around you, to be influenced by you.
All these other nations seem to appreciate what I'm doing and they want me to play the furthest out things.
I never liked opera growing up. I always liked chamber music or solo music even more than orchestral music.
When you go to the theater, if you're really involved in the play, you don't think about it - you're in it.
It's hard for me to think of others because I'm not particularly in sympathy with the music of this century.
I work in the music world in a kind of very multi-faceted way. I work around the world, in different genres.
If a composer has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances?
Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anything goes.
We're doing a workshop over the first two weeks of December, I believe, with Graciella Daniele directing it.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti had a tremendous education as an artist and also an enormous knowledge of literarture.
It seems stupid when people limit themselves to one kind of music. It tells me they're not using their ears.
By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with.
Talking about a materialistic thing, I get about 13 times more royalties from Europe than I do from America.
I write with a mouse, because it has no psychological associations or memories or habits associated with it.
I've heard though that there is a younger generation of tonal French composers who are reacting with vigour.
I believe that music surpasses even language in its power to mirror the innermost recesses of the human soul
I have striven for perfection, it has always eluded me, but I surely had an obligation to make one more try.