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no one is more trustworthy than the repentant sinner who has been found out.
Beware of missing chances; otherwise it may be altogether too late some day.
Some things don't wind up sounding like you'd expect, which is just as well.
Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love.
The music of Bach is without doubt the most sacred gift to the world of art.
I just write when the bell rings. I don't have time to wait for inspiration.
To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
Come to think of it, the way I play is like a drum machine- very mechanical.
Good things happen when you take action. Bad things happen when you neglect.
To accept whatever comes, regardless of the consequences, is to be unafraid.
What's the use in being different when it's being different that's the same.
To be a success as a Broadway composer, you must be Jewish or gay. I'm both.
I liked writing the negative ads more than - because it's more minor chords.
Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.
If you think you might have secret information listening to me, you're lost.
The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.
Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced.
The impressionists, Debussy, Faure, in France, did take a few steps forward.
The whole problem of the sound-work is distancing oneself from the dramatic.
The best way to experience the power of fundamental choices is to make them.
The aesthetic principle is the same in every art, only the material differs.
We shouldn't repeat the same for ages on end, but look into the new as well.
I always try to think of a vocabulary to match different musical situations.
I don't like rap that you can't understand. The youth is so quick and alert.
I'm a great audience. I cry very easily. I suspend disbelief in two seconds.
The possible has been tried and failed. Now it's time to try the impossible.
When you're alone and life is making you lonely, you can always go downtown.
I think America concedes that true American music has sprung from the Negro.
When Curtis Mayfield made 'Super Fly,' he used the lyric to make a statement.
In Tim's films, more than most, if you miss the tone, you don't get the film.
Show yourself more human than critical, and then your Pleasure will increase.
Pawns: they are the soul of this game, they alone form the attack and defense
A pawn, when separated from his fellows, will seldom or never make a fortune.
Improvised music involves a lot of intuition and I like developing intuition.
Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano.
A long time ago I decided that my universe will be the soul and heart of man.
Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano!
I have always felt that art, especially music, is but a demonstration of God.
It should be one’s sole endeavor to see everything afresh and create it anew.
Fortunately, something always remains to be harvested. So let us not be idle.
It should be one's sole endeavor to see everything afresh and create it anew.
I know already the music I will write. But the words? I have not yet decided.
Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
We should never forget that in the smartphone, the smart part is us creators.
For an instant God opens his door and His orchestra plays the Fifth Symphony.
You never know how many friends you have until you rent a house on the beach.
I have wit in my work and a sense of humor, but I do not use irony in any way
Music is mathematics, the mathematics of listening, mathematics for the ears.
Because, also the world of showbiz is not just black and white, good and bad.
By the visual pattern, but mostly I'm guided entirely by my ear, what I hear.