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In times of stress, I frequently remind myself that I'm doing what I want to do most and that's what really counts.
Some of the prettiest music I've done was in films that really were not a smash. Your music fares as the film does.
The Pavarotti and Galway albums were a lot of fun because I got to work with two of the best 'voices' in the world.
Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.
The responsibility of the artist consists in perfecting his work so that it may become attractively disinteresting.
I could ride away and hide away Where we were miles apart But when I got there I'd find you there Right in my heart
I am proud to be able to claim that, from the age of nineteen, I've managed to earna living entirely as a composer.
The only form of music is melody, without melody music is not feasible, and music and melody are quite inseparable.
Human dignity begins to assert itself only at the point where man is distinguishable from the beast by pity for it.
In many ways I'm an experimental and new music composer that comes from a rural tradition rather than an urban one.
To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop.
My grandmother played the piano, and I used to toddle over there and pick out little things that sounded good to me.
I happen to be one of the people who believe that the Internet is a force of good, and I'm very optimistic about it.
Companions, in misery and worse, that is what we all are, and to try to change this substantially avails us nothing.
Concerts are never real music, you have to give up the idea of hearing in them all the most beautiful things of art.
The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes.
Some scenes cry out for a certain kind of treatment. The kind we're conditioned by years of film-watching to expect.
Blue skies Smiling at me Nothing but blue skies Do I see Bluebirds Singing a song Nothing but bluebirds All day long
If music is to continue to support the livelihoods of artists, it cannot be taken without the permission of artists.
It is so difficult to mix with artists! You must choose business men to talk to, because artists only talk of money.
I always thought the story [Anthem] would work in three dimensions - and studying that cut material was very useful.
His best-known piece is probably his "Canon in D." He also has 'Hexachordium Apollonis', which is also quite famous.
What I have achieved by industry and practice, anyone else with tolerable natural gift and ability can also achieve.
What would become of all historical biography if it was written only with consideration for other peoples' feelings?
The grand thing about the human mind is that it can turn its own tables and see meaninglessness as ultimate meaning.
Six happy years together Such a perfect matching You're entering the 7 year itch zone This is no time for scratching
The danger of having too close deadlines... It could lead you to just accept an avenue that's not quite good enough.
This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.
All my life I have regarded myself as one of Mozart's greatest admirers, and I will remain one until my last breath.
It seemed unthinkable for me to leave the world forever before I had produced all that I felt called upon to produce
L.A. is so isolated and unhip in a way; it gives you room to figure out who you are and explore more personal stuff.
There is a way to master silence Control its curves, inhabit its dark corners And listen to the hiss of time outside
The sound that I play is delayed, it's modified, and it's modulated. It's an intelligent system; it's happening now.
I am writing Parsifal only for my wife - if I had to depend on the German spirit, I should have nothing more to say.
We may be sure that a genius like Mozart, were he born today, would write concertos like Chopin and not like Mozart.
The dumbing down of the country reflects itself on Broadway. The shows get dumber, and the public gets used to them.
When you trance out properly, when you're completely in that world, there is no other world, so there's no conflict.
I took piano lessons when I was 6. I didn't want to go on with it. I don't remember being moved by a piece of music.
You've got to appreciate the things that come from the art of the Negro and from the heart of the man farthest down.
The one thing I have always felt about musical theatre is that it is, to an extraordinary degree, about construction.
My work should be judged as it enters the ears and heads of listeners, not as it is described to the eyes of readers.
You'll never get me into a tux. Not until I'm dead and I have no choice because that's what the undertaker put me in.
Music is the most abstract of the arts and also the most physical....music is under two signs, the stars and the wine
When I was young, people used to say to me: Wait until you're fifty, you'll see. I am fifty. I haven't seen anything.
The faculty of creating is never given to us all by itself. It always goes hand in hand with the gift of observation.
I wonder if memory is true, and I know that it cannot be, but that one lives by memory nevertheless and not by truth.
My father and I never really achieved a real relationship. We probably saw each other 20 or 25 times in our lifetime.
College: two hundred people reading the same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books.
Gladys.. work has kept you fit And Bill.. you never moan Well life's not for carrying cases With a butler of your own
Happy 60th Birthday, good buddy. How are you dealing with your awful debility, lessened utility and loss of mobility?