A supreme composer can only come out of a musical nation.

The art of music above all the other arts is the expression of the soul of a nation.

Music is the reaching out towards the utmost realities by means of ordered sound.

But in the next world I shan't be doing music, with all the striving and disappointments. I shall be being it.

I have always found it difficult to study. I have learnt almost entirely what I have learnt by trying it out on the dog.

The duty of the words is to say just as much as the music has left unsaid and no more.

There is no reason why an atheist could not write a good Mass.

I suppose it never occurs to these people that a man might just want to write a piece of music.

Wagner used to read the libretti of his operas to his friends; I am glad I was not there.

To the unmusical hearer a note on the gong means dinner, this perhaps often is menacing enough.

It looks wrong, and it sounds wrong, but it's right.

For the future, the motto is, "No days unalert.

Jesus Christ is the Son of God.

You were not born to just go to school and work, Discover the world and enjoy your life while you're still young

That is one of the bitter curses of poverty

Lovers navigating with different moral compasses causes the relation ship to sail in circles.

We are both going to pray that we may live together all our lives and die the same day.

My greatest fear is disappointing the reader, so each book has to be better than the one before.

The terror created by weaponry has never stopped men from employing them.

I have had to learn the simplest things last. Which made for difficulties.

I live in New York City, the stories of my films take place in New York; I'm a New York filmmaker.