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I try not to make any boundaries. I try to let all art influence me.
Conducting is like making love to a hundred people at the same time.
The 20th century has been a badly written drama, from the beginning.
Shiva danced the world into existence... that's a very nice thought.
Art is not emotion. Art is the medium in which emotion is expressed.
Quarrels in France strengthen a love affair, in America they end it.
Publishers are thieves, they are on the other side of the barricade.
don't perspire while conducting - only the audience should get warm.
Ladies love me, girls adore me I mean even the ones who never saw me
I never understood why the metal heads in my school hated the punks.
If you want to know about the Sixties, play the music of The Beatles.
I never wanted to be a performer. I suppose I was precocious, really.
If it is art, it is not for all, and if it is for all, it is not art.
Elton John's opinion turned the label's opinion around, all in a day.
I like to write on tour busses and airplanes. Something about moving.
Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.
So I went into jazz and performed in jazz clubs all over the country.
Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.
I began like all composers, writing for small groups. Chamber groups.
It's like an act of murder; you play with intent to commit something.
The retrospective glance is a relatively easy gesture for us to make.
I am hitting my head against the walls, but the walls are giving way.
However, I began composing as soon as I started taking piano lessons.
Traveling with a big band is like being an inmate in a traveling zoo.
I'm singing the music publisher's theme song - it ain't a commercial.
Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
I'm dreaming of a white Christmas, just like the ones I used to know.
Classical music presents some of the world's most challenging pieces.
Irving Berlin has no place in American music -- he is American music.
Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.
Art is sort of an experimental station in which one tries out living.
I was never a quick writer, but composed with great care and efforts.
Make new friends, but keep the old; Those are silver, these are gold.
I have a very strange melodic gift: melodies come to me effortlessly.
We're working as if it were going out of style-which of course it is.
Only when the form grows clear to you, will the spirit become so too.
I always had this energy level that made me want to come to New York.
I didn't want much. I wanted much more. In fact, I wanted everything.
Having just the vision's no solution, everything depends on execution
Harry Patch didn't get enough recognition. Jerry Garcia got too much.
With a guitar I would be able to express the things I felt in sounds.
I am one of those who will go on doing till all doings are at an end.
I loved medieval architecture when I was very small; I don't know why.
I'm alive. I have my music; I have my children. I am the luckiest man.
Making good television is what Simon Cowell does. That's his business.
I love collaborations because they take your music in a different way.
There's a very primal, emotional response I feel when I hear flamenco.
A great piece of music is beautiful regardless of how it is performed.
It's like an act of murder - you play with intent to commit something.
A teacher's hardest lesson is to limit his explanation to the minimum.