Cartoonist Walt Disney has made the twentieth century's only important contribution to music. Disney has made use of music as language.

Irving Berlin has no place in American music -- he is American music.

Musical numbers should carry the action of the play and should be representative of the personalities of the characters who sing them.

The fact that the theatregoing public likes my music is no credit to me. There are many other composers who write better music that the public doesn't like.

Go on being uncommercial. There's a lot of money in it.

Low standards are a tactic that takes pressure off teachers' unions by accepting mediocrity and failure for kids.

The most important part of vehicle maintenance is clean windows, so if you are broken down you will enjoy the beauty of the view.

How do I do it? I don't know how I wouldn't do it-that's the thing.

My own singing voice is not very good and I don't think that anybody really sings in their own voice.

Dory is what Mum used to call a "strong-looking woman," which means that, from the back, she looked like a man, and, from the front, you preferred the back

The people who truly love me and loved me before all of this stuff. You can't ever leave them behind.

Technology provides means for expression and interchange and so on, so yes it should be free and open, but there are a lot of constraints on how its used.

I think that I probably inevitably fetishize nature, although I try not to, because it's kind of embarrassing, repulsive behavior. I think it's just an extension of me being old-fashioned.

Success is meaningless without fulfilment - both begin within.

Poisonous people do not deserve your time. To think otherwise is masochistic.