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Well, I think music for kids is never anything but experimental is it?
As long as I have health and strength, I will gladly work all my days.
My manuscripts sleep, while I cannot, for I am covered with poultices.
I did think I did see all heaven before me, and the great God himself.
I should have worked harder in my life. I suffer from a guilt complex.
Beethoven I take twice a week, Haydn four times, and Mozart every day.
Behind me the branches of a wasted and sterile existence are cracking.
There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry.
You know, I think music is very interactive. It's a - it's a language.
When I compose an album, I don't think about how to adapt it on stage.
Sometimes I like to make music together with a singer or with singers.
I've been all over the world and I've never seen a statue of a critic.
Any asshole can write a tone-row. It takes a composer to write a tune.
Boulez seemed to me to be a guy who wrote laws. Like a company lawyer.
You know, anyone who invites me to do something makes me feel special.
Barbarians always think of themselves as the bringers of civilization.
When Brahms is in extra good spirits, he sings, "The grave is my joy".
If I practice Cherokee along with backing tracks would it be Chereoke?
I'm comfortable, but not satisfied and I hope to always feel that way.
Verbal communication about music is impossible except among musicians.
To me, the Ennio Morricone kind of sound is a derivative of soul music.
I am a moment illuminating eternity....I am affirmation...I am ecstasy.
When I was four years old, my mother owned some tenements in the Bronx.
When you hear the elephant music you're hearing what they mean to make.
When a man is in despair, it means that he still believes in something.
Tomorrow is in the wings waiting for you to sound her entrance fanfare.
An auditory scenario for the players to act out with their instruments.
I like to feel and understand people's contentment with what I've done.
People like Arvo Part would not have been taken seriously 20 years ago.
Wagner is a composer who has beautiful moments but awful quarter hours.
People who live in glass houses must reeeeeallly trust their neighbors.
If you want to make money in music, get into the band uniform business.
The trouble with doing nothing is that you can never take any time off.
I was playing in other rock bands. Any of those bands didn't last long.
Heaven... I'm in heaven, and my heart beats so that I can hardly speak.
Anything you can do I can do better, I can do anything better than you.
All the doctors who wanted to forbid me to smoke and to drink are dead.
I feel like music is oceanic - there's no end to what you can discover.
Without my morning coffee I'm just like a dried up piece of roast goat.
God's gift to his sorrowing creatures is a joy worthy of their destiny.
Music is edifying, for from time to time it sets the soul in operation.
She dries her eyes and bakes her pies and leaves 'em on the window sill
Composers are the only people who can hear good music above bad sounds.
The best inheritance a father can leave his children is a good example.
Creativity is what makes humanity move. We were created to participate.
I grew up with the piano. I learned its language as I learned to speak.
I love Indian music very much, but I haven't studied that specifically.
Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors.
I would rather write 10,000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet.
Strange, I feel as if up to now I had written no more than a few notes.