Don't bother to look, I've composed all this already.

Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.

If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.

Beauty and fullness of tone can be achieved by having the whole orchestra play with high clarinets and a carefully selected number of piccolos.

You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion.

The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause.

What is best in music is not to be found in the notes.

A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything.

But it's peculiar, as soon as I am in the midst of nature and by myself, everything that is base and trivial vanishes without trace. On such days nothing scares me; and this helps me again and again.

I am hitting my head against the walls, but the walls are giving way.

If you think you're boring your audience, go slower not faster.

This time I wouldn't forget him, because I couldn't ever forgive him - for breaking my heart twice.

We had a choice between Democrats who couldn't learn from the past and Republicans who couldn't stop living in it...

New technologies and resources offer exciting opportunities. They democratise access to information.

Rome was not built in a day, but it was built everyday.

There are only three great powers in the universe: God in heaven, the pope in the Vatican and Dadá in the great box.

On and on eternally Shall your altered fluid run, Bud and bloom and go to seed; But your singing days are done

I'm always very interested in playing in front of different kinds of audiences. It always affects the way you play.

Be prepared and be honest.

And check this out: If every American had one meat-free day per week, it would be the same as taking eight million cars off American roads in a year.

Who mentioned the Church? On the contrary, I have great respect for religion. My objection is to those who are against so many things and for so little.