Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
It's a wonderful feeling just being in this creative motif.
Real randomness requires an infinite amount of information.
My big ears indicated a talent for music. This thrilled me.
Be original and find your inner voice. The rest will follow.
I set down a beautiful chord on paper—and suddenly it rusts.
Love can make a summer fly, or a night seem like a lifetime.
Your ears will always lead you right, but you must know why.
I'm never gonna quit, cause quitting' just ain't my schtick.
It's not a hard sell to be asked to do something in Ireland.
Who wants to be a millionaire? And go to ev'ry swell affair?
Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.
New music? Hell, there's been no new music since Stravinsky.
Well, because music is my life and music is not work for me.
To judge a composer's work, one must consider it as a whole.
Oh, I'd been writing cartoonish music pretty much all along.
To me, the original VCS3 synthesizer is like a Stradivarius.
I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language.
I had to realize that the use of samples has its rules, too.
I hate you, Richard Wagner . . . but I hate you on my knees.
Applaud my friends, the comedy is over... [on his death bed]
I have always thought of music as a highway with many lanes.
I’m not trying to play the guitar. I’m trying to play music.
When we use terms we get confused, yet we have no other way.
Music is essentially built upon primitive memory structures.
Music is the sole art which evokes nostalgia for the future.
A mouse and a keyboard is not a good performance instrument.
Truly there would be reason to go mad were it not for music.
Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.
To compose is to remember music that has never been written.
Everyone I used to play with has either given up or is dead.
If you’re not mad at the world, you don’t have what it takes
If death is the absence of life, then death's death is life.
Once I know what the first page is, then the rest will come.
The composer...joins Heaven and Earth with threads of sounds.
I'm not a critic, and I never talk about other people's work.
There is still plenty of good music to be written in C major.
I cannot conceive of music that expresses absolutely nothing.
The trouble with the opera is there's always to much singing.
There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.
Be a number one yourself. And not a number two somebody else.
What does music mean to you? What would you do without music?
Mr. Wagner has beautiful moments but bad quarters of an hour.
But I do not want to use Hungarian verses for British people.
I love to write quartets. One could say that this is a mania.
I don't pretend to want to write the Great American Symphony.
I write music to both the situations and the lyrics in plays.
Everything we do is music." (Classical Composer)(From: 4'33")
Dad, Thanks for being my biggest fan, even when I strike-out.
The idealists will always be in society, and we will survive.
Everything is permissible as long as it's done in good taste.