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In the theatrical works we love and admire the most, the ending of the drama generally takes place offstage.
Not one sound fears the silence that extinguishes it. And no silence exists that is not pregnant with sound.
It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else.
We are not committed to this or that. We are committed to the nothing in-between, whether we know it or not.
If you truthfully can say without a doubt within your heart Dear Lord, Thy will be done, and God knows best!
And harmony means that the relationship between all the elements used in a composition is balanced, is good.
Today each composer is not only involved in aesthetics, but he's actually trying to create his own language.
I probably went to musique concrete concerts - though not the very first ones - at the beginning of the 50s.
My show business career doesn't mean I can't write a symphony. It just means I was never asked to write one.
It was very difficult to startle or surprise someone with a particular sound during the family computer era.
It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it.
More and more I find that in order to create effectively one has to consider delirium and, yes, organize it.
Must one become seventy years old to recognize that one's greatest strength lies in creating musical kitsch?
One might say that where Religion becomes artificial, it is reserved for Art to save the spirit of religion.
I feel akin to the Platypus. An orphan in a family. A swimmer, a recluse. Part bird, part fish, part lizard.
The bungle tour is a bit up in the air due to the fact this at we are getting screwed by our overseas label.
Well, I've never been to Japan so I couldn't say. I do know that we have a bit of a following there however.
You know that I become quite powerless whenever I am obliged to write for an instrument which I cannot bear.
We try to get the best performance out of the artists. There is no point in saying to them, 'You're useless.'
Quite often, when I describe to people what I want, I'll say "overwhelming" - I want it to feel like it's phy
As a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every word spoken.
I was blessed to work with The Jazz Messengers when the two piano players were Keith Jarrett and Chick Corea.
I have not the least doubt that school developed in me nothing but what was evil and left the good untouched.
It must be a sign of talent that I do not give up, though I can get nobody to take an interest in my efforts.
I'm constantly revising and updating a piece until it's finally recorded. Once it's recorded, then it's over.
I’ve learned what ‘classical’ means. It means something that sings and dances through sheer joy of existence.
Well I live in Vienna with my wife and son, and I teach in Hamburg, there will be no changes in that respect.
People often thought Leopold Auer was Russian because he lived in St. Petersburg so long, almost fifty years.
This sounds horribly pretentious, but I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it.
I used to raise the devil when my father made me practice the flute and my mother made me take piano lessons.
I have always kept one end in view, namely ... to conduct a well-regulated church music to the honour of God.
You really must stop acting Like a 20-year-old, gold plated In a midlife crisis You just graduated Happy 60th
I'm soooo happy you're my Dad And soooo I want to say I love you, Dad, and wish you A sooo very best birthday
I'm constantly tortured, and that's why I say happiness is irrelevant. Happiness is for children and yuppies.
I was cut off from the world. There was no one to confuse or torment me, and I was forced to become original.
And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition.
With every word, I drop knowledge. I'm a diamond in the rough, a shiny piece of coal trying to reach my goal.
I grew up in an immigrant neighborhood. We just knew the rule was you're going to have to work twice as hard.
Forget the idea that inspiration will come to you like a flash of lightning. It's much more about hard graft.
You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel.
My music is very, very precise. It's very rigorous. The forms are much more intricate than you would imagine.
Don't be too dismissive of children. While it's true that few children are artists, all artists are children.
Greatness is not the effect of which inspiration is the cause. We are all inspired, but we are all not great.
Like many composers, most of my compositions are influenced by the music I've listened to throughout my life.
I know what I want at least, and the older I get I think I'm better at getting it out of players and singers.
All good music, whatever its date, is ageless - as alive and significant today as it was when it was written.
Music is the inarticulate speech of the heart, which cannot be compressed into words, because it is infinite.
My heart pounds sickeningly and I turn pale... I often feel as if I were dead... I seem to be losing my mind.
I like to hear melodies that go from one extreme to the next- saxophone to a bell to a whistle, for instance.
Yes, I like Pina Coladas, and getting caught in the rain. I'm not much into health food, I am into Champagne.