Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.
The only love affair I have ever had was with music.
I guess I watch movies to make myself happier a lot.
Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin.
It looks wrong, and it sounds wrong, but it's right.
In the absence of a great dream, pettiness prevails.
The true beauty of music is that it connects people.
Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.
From heav'nly thoughts all true delight doth spring.
My movies are not movies of answers but of questions.
I really am a fan of combining worlds in my own life.
If you want something hard enough, it just gets done.
I've since become really good at overwhelming myself.
If there's one thing I really love... it's sad music.
I took to my room and let small things evolve slowly.
I think we're in a very low point of music right now.
An entire composition written in jazz could not live.
I loathe my body. The liver spots, the sagging flesh.
To write a symphony is, for me, to construct a world.
Don't bother to look, I've composed all this already.
Film music, over the years, has taken from everybody.
Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
I still believe that music is healing to some extent.
Now I know what a dulcimer is supposed to sound like.
Growing up, I was very much interested in jazz music.
Music begins where the possibilities of language end.
We carry our homes within us which enables us to fly.
If you're not living your truth, you're living a lie.
Once we're inside a tune, we can do anything with it.
Let people have an education and you can't stop them.
I hear many extra-musical things somehow in Coltrane.
Success is all very well as long as you don't inhale.
Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.
You mustn't underestimate an audience's intelligence.
The new limitations are the human ones of perception.
There are no managers like there used to be managers.
Never look at the trombones, it only encourages them.
Music induces nightingales to sing, pug dogs to yelp.
You have to know composition to be a good improviser.
White. A blank page or canvas. So many possibilities.
There's something inimical about the camera and song.
Swing your razor wide! Sweeney, hold it to the skies!
A world is in danger, this planet is in great danger!
Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore.
The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same
The best magic always results from ecstasies of logic.
Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge.
My best film composing experience was with Elia Kazan.
It is no common mortal who speaks to us in this music.