All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.

I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.

One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.

My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.

Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.

Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa Lobos?

Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?

I take no pride in my artistic talents; they are God-given and I see absolutely no reason to become puffed up over something that one has received.

A Baba Yaga never breaks a promise. Legs, yes. Hearts, occasionally. But never a promise.

My father’s corporation, the Nero Organization, supplied assassins for hire. Killing was our business, and business had been good for years.

I contemplate the impossible and achieve madness. This is my blessing. This is my curse. My heaven, my hell.

You tempt the devil, ” he whispered then laid his head down and sighed. “Angels always do.

To hold a pen is to be at war.

God is too good to be unkind, too wise to be mistaken; and when you cannot trace His hand, you can trust His heart.

We do not move forward by curtailing people's liberty because we are afraid of what they may do or say.

For this I came - to open your hearts to the Light.

God doesn't want us to just feel gratitude, but for us to show it by giving thanks to God with our lives.

I'll probably be punished for hard living.