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Getting out and being able to present a concert is invigorating.
Baton technique is to a conductor what fingers are to a pianist.
In my opinion, British women are more romantic than French ones.
Each something is a celebration of the nothing that supports it.
Dad, because you are my father it's been easy to believe in God.
The great myth of our times is that technology is communication.
I wouldn't give a performer something I couldn't deliver myself.
The fact that I'm a performer helps me enormously as a lyricist.
My power of speech, unimpeachable. Only 19 but my mind is older.
Beethoven and Liszt have contributed to the advent of long hair.
I still have great faith in what is good and right in all of us.
Art is not an end in itself, but a means of addressing humanity.
Thanks to nanny, I've got a deep understanding of Russian tales.
Do not take up music unless you would rather die than not do so.
Writing is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can't be taught.
I used to go into the studio around midnight and stay all night.
The principal mark of genius is not perfection, but originality.
I just consider myself a student, trying to learn more about it.
One day the 'Maple Leaf' will make me King of Ragtime Composers.
The more restrictions you have, the easier anything is to write.
Heaven is where you'll be when you are okay right where you are.
And once I know what the first page is, then the rest will come.
'The Phantom of the Opera' is about love. It's as simple as that.
Nothing will ever be as big as 'The Phantom of the Opera' for me.
As much as you try to organize your life, life will surprise you.
Tell me, I forget, show me, I remember, involve me, I understand.
1972 was a year of many pleasant and rewarding experiences for me
Most gentlemen don't like love, they just like to kick it around.
I wanted to start working on something that had a lasting effect.
I foster a sorrowful conception of affection. Make no sacrifices.
The world resembles a stage on which every man is playing a part.
Writing seems to be more difficult as you move through the years.
But if you go from Moscow to Budapest you think you are in Paris.
When a piece is done, I mix it before going on to any other piece
Most everything I've ever written has .been done to 'assignment.'
My mother is a singer, still performs today; she's a jazz singer.
On land, on sea, at home abroad, I smoke my pipe and worship God.
You can feel an emotion; just don't think that it's so important.
If Home is where the heart is then may your Home be blessed . . .
Daddy I'm just little But I love you BIG Happy Birthday Big Daddy
Then, in 1983 I went on a very long concert tour all over Europe.
I believe that man's noblest endowment is his capacity to change.
Well, hello. My name is Lin. But if you're dyslexic, call me Nil.
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
Does it not occur to people that I might be artificial by nature?
I tried practicing for a few weeks and ended up playing too fast.
Radio broadcasting was only 25 years old when I was born in 1932.
The aim of music is not to express feelings but to express music.
I shall be the first composer in history not to have a biography.
You want what you want, whether or not you think you can have it.