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Upper berth, lower berth, that's the difference between talent and genius.
I can sit on a chair with a score and give myself a wonderful performance.
Only when I experience do I compose - only when I compose do I experience.
In my piano concerto I developed this polyphony to much higher complexity.
Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
I often wonder, if there were no deadlines, would anything ever get ended?
Musicians are always gigging and never have a chance to stop for a minute.
I'm a diamond in the rough, a shiny piece of coal trying to reach my goal.
Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.
For me, curiosity is life. If you are not curious, you are in your coffin.
Noises have generally been thought of as indistinct, but this is not true.
Richard Wagner, a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds.
I'd definitely love to play in Nashville again. That would be really good.
There's no reason music should be difficult for an audience to understand.
Forgive me, Majesty. I am a vulgar man! But I assure you, my music is not.
I like music that is able to stir my soul. My music is a spiritual exercise
In love's God-like breathing, there's the innermost aspect of the universe.
I love the vast surface of silence; and it is my chief delight to break it.
In 1994, I started touring again and I recorded two albums for Chesky Jazz.
Night and day you are the one, Only you beneath the moon and under the sun.
I don't see myself necessarily having a burning desire to write a symphony.
I wake up and I see the face of the devil and I ask him, "What time is it?"
Why write for the orchestra? For one thing it's a very challenging problem.
The supreme harmony of the cosmos is selected in the harmony of the spirit.
I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
What the hell do you want to work for somebody else for? Work for yourself!
Both my marriages were failures! Number one departed, and number two stayed
Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love
Art leaves something to the listener; that's what separates art from craft.
When I was growing up, there was no such thing as a touring ukulele player.
I don't want the kind of theater that I love and grew up seeing to die out.
The material of music is sound and silence. Integrating these is composing.
With music and art, I can create the kind of world in which I wish to live.
It's a liminal thing, humming, And I'm always interested in liminal things.
Love is a mystery which, when solved, evaporates. The same holds for music.
For over ten years or so game music has developed into a very large market.
I don't know anyone who would be exclusively working on game music, per se.
I sometimes lack confidence in public, although I am proud enough inwardly.
When I'm dead twenty-five years, people are going to begin to recognize me.
A camera exposes more than just an image. It also exposes the photographer.
Time's fatal wings do ever forward fly; To every day we live, a day we die.
All my life I have had a choice of hate and love. I chose love and I am here
The darkest day in life is the one in which we expect something for nothing.
Musical theatre history is littered with bad reviews for now classic pieces.
But I fear, my lot being cast in Scotland, that beauty would not be content.
Expression, to a great extent, is a matter of terms, and terms are anyone's.
People come to music to seek oblivion: is that not also a form of deception?
If you want to buy my wares Follow me and climb the stairs... Love for sale.
What you have in your head, put down on paper. The head is a fragile vessel.
The greatest thing you'll ever learn Is just to love and be loved in return.