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Not too many people in America know about me, but all of Europe knows about me.
But I also like to be in control, like anyone else. I try to achieve a balance.
The taste of death is upon my lips. I feel something that is not of this earth.
We've played in places where there were more of us onstage than in the audience.
A Satin Doll is a woman who is as pretty on the inside as she is on the outside.
I think [the virtual choir] speaks well to a benevolent future for the Internet.
The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest.
Easy mind, light heart. A mind that is too easy hides a heart that is too heavy.
There is only one real happiness in life, and that is the happiness of creating.
At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings.
I understand more when I travel why people believe that the French are arrogant.
I cannot say what I think is right about Music. I only know the rightness of it.
Music is the mediator between the life of the senses and the life of the spirit.
The Music is the only corporeal introduction to the superior world of Knowledge.
Its easy to gauge the worth of a man, just ask them what they think of Yoko Ono.
Our basic audience begins with creaking elderly types of twenty-three and above.
People see me as a theoretician, but my music is also seductive, even spiritual.
I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer.
You should neither play bad compositions, nor, unless compelled, listen to them.
Music can be the bridge to understanding, but people have to get some knowledge.
Often a single experience will open the young soul to music for a whole lifetime
If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.
The possibilities of percussion sounds, I believe, have never been fully realized
If I'd known I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself.
Music is...a form of remembering, a return to the seasons of the heart long gone.
Writing beautiful melodies is not fashionable because it is very difficult to do.
Symphony musicians are not trained in improvising, certainly not in a jazz style.
What I wanted and what I visualized while composing has not always been realized.
My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter.
I equate composing with orchestrating. I think my music in terms of an orchestra.
The soul maintains it's deathly sleep and the heart bleeds from a thousand wounds
Music's exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
Because if everyone played the ukulele, this world would be a much happier place.
'Oxygene' was one of the first, if not the first, popular electronic music album.
Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It's lighter than you think.
Life holds so many simple blessings, each day bringing its own individual wonder.
Love is ever where the heart will find it no matter how unlikely seems the place.
We oft question and compare.... Is the journey so important or the getting there?
Only become a musician if there is absolutely no other way you can make a living.
Everything we know about Hamilton, we knew when he was alive, because he told us.
What 'Twilight Zone' did was show we all have a great capacity for good and evil.
Music is everything that one listens to with the intention of listening to music.
This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.
You can get away with a lot more in a film or television score. It is contextual.
You should never listen to someone practice. That is their work and theirs alone.
If music could be translated into human speech, it would no longer need to exist.
It was never supposed to be a hit. It was supposed to be a Joe Morello drum solo.
People who make music together cannot be enemies, at least while the music lasts.
Something new has been added, a new art of sound. Am I wrong in calling it music?
Music is the reaching out towards the utmost realities by means of ordered sound.