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In the Rodgers and Hammerstein generation, popular hits came out of shows and movies.
You move just a finger, say the slightest word, something's bound to linger-be heard.
People have set that up as a standard, not to recognize a prophet in his own country.
When you've got worries, all the noise and the hurry seems to help, I know. Downtown.
Pop culture is not about depth. It's about marketing, supply and demand, consumerism.
I love it when an aria fits a singer as perfectly as a suit of well-tailored clothes.
While my mother wanted me to be a musician, I wanted to become an electronic engineer.
Someone once asked me... whether I waited for inspiration. My answer was: "Every day!"
It's important to the world to see superheroes that are spread across our demographic.
I think I'll give them another chance. Americans deserve another chance with my music.
Do you know that my very first experience as a composer was a 'Concerto for Accordion?
Surely, you go to the theater because you want to have a great evening in the theater.
By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow.
I never became primarily a musician! I've always been a wanderer and I'm always bored.
It is more important to keep the horse going hard than to always play the exact notes.
To love as Christ loves is to let our love be a practical and not a sentimental thing.
A few years later, my Uncle David took me to the Earle Theatre to hear Duke Ellington.
There is hardly any money interest in art, and music will be there when money is gone.
I write music that sounds complex but isn't. I frankly never think in terms of theory.
It is impossible to imagine a more complete fusion with nature than that of the Gypsy.
Concerts are dangerous because anything can happen - which is one of the joys as well.
To copy the truth can be a good thing, but to invent the truth is better, much better.
It is strange how one feels drawn forward without knowing at first where one is going.
Gesualdo was very important to me, I wanted to do something which corresponded to him.
I had no idea 'Moon River' would do so well. I was too busy working to think about it.
Erroll Garner is one of the few musicians I believe has a sense of humor in his music.
If I could do something with Paul McCartney it would be just amazing. Or Eric Clapton.
Pay no attention to what the critics say; no statue has ever been erected to a critic.
If music is sound & came from silence, then silence is potentially greater than sound.
As long as there are people trying to play music in a sincere way, there will be Jazz.
I think there have been some periods when the writing almost became a bit of a burden.
Whoever tells a lie is not pure of heart, and such a person can not cook a clean soup.
Film is endlessly just beyond your reach. I think that's what I love so much about it.
I felt a challenge to compose music. That's where my challenge was, for the most part.
After the last notes of Gotterdammerung I felt as though I had been let out of prison.
The duty of the words is to say just as much as the music has left unsaid and no more.
I was always self-taught, there was no-one to study with when I was doing composition.
The whole duty of a conductor is comprised in his ability to indicate the right tempo.
This is what really makes real jazz musicians: people coming out with their own voice.
Math and music are intimately related. Not necessarily on a conscious level, but sure.
The outer space beings are my brothers. They sent me here. They already know my music.
I mean, I would hope that I have a style or personality that is evident wherever I go.
Mullets are still going strong in the south and places like St Louis or the Carolinas.
Well we really meant you to visit Paris in May, but the rhythm required two syllables.
As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence . . .
If music wakes you up, makes you think, heals you...then, I guess the music is working.
Do you know that my very first experience as a composer was a 'Concerto for Accordion?'
You never know what will happen. There is a thing called zeitgeist. You have to hit it.
I have never seen faces, but because I have looked people in the eye, only their gazes.
Why, in such a case, should the performer essay any sort of considered approach at all?