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The pressure to give A grades is intense. It comes from the students and increasingly from their parents as well.
There is something so beautiful and inspiring about picking ourselves up with humility and dignity after we fall.
The September 11 attacks were the greatest work of art in the cosmos...compared to that, we composers are nothing
How did this or that change my music? The only time I have to think about it is when an interviewer asks me that.
Oh continue to love me, never misjudge the most faithful heart of your beloved. Ever thine. Ever mine. Ever ours.
The new Squarepusher album as well, although it is proper headf*** industrial. Not one for a pool party in Ibiza!
If experiments on animals were abandoned on grounds of compassion, mankind would have made a fundamental advance.
The challenge is about taking things that are infinitely complex and making them simpler and more understandable.
It's never too late to have a fling For autumn is just as nice as spring And it's never too late to fall in love.
You have to be submitted for the Pulitzer, and unbeknownst to us, a choral director whom I know had submitted us.
Generally, the best recording is the original cast, because that's the way the piece grew: integrally, with them.
Math was my big interest when I was in prep school. I was considering taking math in college, and majoring in it.
After a year, I thought gee I don't really need college anymore, which wasn't correct, but that's what I thought.
The one obvious thing is that the devices are so good now that you can also see their limitations extremely well.
The English learned, in my view, how to use harmony much earlier than the French or the Italians, or the Germans.
Write to me and don't be so lazy. Otherwise I shall have to give you a thrashing. What fun! I'll break your head.
Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of disgust.
Melody is the essence of music. I compare a good melodist to a fine racer, and counterpoints to hack post-horses.
Let us take our children seriously! Everything else follows from this...only the best is good enough for a child.
My work has been marginalized as far as the jazz-business complex is concerned, or the contemporary-music complex.
I think that becoming a successful rock band is a little like becoming a professional athlete. Nobody plans on it.
Some Argentines, without means, do it, People say, in Boston , even beans do it. Let's do it, let's fall in love .
Real music is always revolutionary, for it cements the ranks of the people; it arouses them and leads them onward.
Desire is always followed by boredom. And only love can defeat boredom. Love with a capital L; we all dream of it.
When I play 'Newhart' in concert, it always gets a hand, right from the very beginning. To me, 'Newhart' is a hit.
It's sometimes better to have a father figure to rebel against than nothing, than just a black hole or an absence.
The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation.
In music, as I find myself forever saying, things don't get better or worse: they evolve and transform themselves.
Only art and science make us suspect the existence of life to a higher level, and maybe also instill hope thereof.
To play piano is a significant part of my life, my existence. It fulfills a very physical & spiritual need for me.
The only one who knows this ounce of words is just a token, is he who has a ton to tell that must remain unspoken.
Never forget that your days are blessed. You may know how to profit by them, or you may not, but they are blesses.
Art's the biggest vanity: the assumption that one's view of peace or fright or beauty is permanently communicable.
When you play, do not trouble yourself as to who is listening. Yet always play as though a master listened to you.
The way I approach things is from an experimental folk music standpoint. I was obsessed with the Beatles as a kid.
Discipline means looking beyond the appearance, beyond that which is visible and acknowledging one Infinite Cause.
I love being a musician. I love the lifestyle. But I think it's probably as difficult and frustrating as anything.
My Constanze is the virtuous, honourable, discreet, and faithful darling of her honest and kindly-disposed Mozart.
We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
Let us take our children seriously! Everything else follows from this... only the best is good enough for a child.
That's a sound design thing but then we wanted to do music that would not disturb it and at the same time drive it.
When you're recording live, really good vintage instruments onto two-inch tape, it's the best fidelity you can get.
My love of musical theater was certainly not typical. I mean, it was considered to be very, very abnormal, in fact!
It is conceivable that what is unified form to the author or composer may of necessity be formless to his audience.
It is curious to be treated by the old-fashioned people as a criminal because my thoughts and ways are beyond them.
My favourite type of pizza is a Napoletana: tomatoes, mozzarella, and very few anchovies. It must have a thin base.
Our castle is not imposing, but is well built, and surrounded by a very fine garden. I live in the bailiff's house.
I know of no better definition of love than the one given by Proust - Love is space and time measured by the heart.
One of the advantages of being over forty is that one begins to learn the difference between knowing and realising.
My father was an innovator. He's the first person who sang and set Rumi's poetry into music 35 years, 40 years ago.