For my part, if I had the power I would insist on all oratorios being sung in the costume of the period - with a possible exception in the case of the Creation.

The greatest composer does not sit down to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working.

The higher the voice the smaller the intellect.

A good composer is slowly discovered and a bad composer is slowly found out.

The finest singing, given a good voice to begin with, comes from the constant play of a fine mind upon the inner meaning of the music.

The great-at-anything do not set to work because they are inspired, but rather become inspired because they are working. They don't waste time waiting for inspiration.

Jazz is not a 'form' but a collection of tags and tricks.

I had no idea Stravinsky disliked Debussy so much as this.

Beethoven, Wagner, Bach, and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration.

You may help a lame dog over a stile but he is still a lame dog on the other side.

The good composer is slowly discovered the bad composer is slowly found out.

Want to forget that you’re growing older? Walk across green grass with bare feet.

Please note, I am not suggesting that illicit drugs are required to break down social barriers.

Nowadays shots are created in post-production, on computers. It's not really photography.

I just think you can't shut your life off to just, you know, one thing. You gotta be open-minded. Explore things. Feed your artist.

In my sentences I go where no man has gone before.

What we have to do as a nation, and London as a city, is to get behind that figure and think what we are doing.

According to a new poll, 50 percent of Americans think the country is divided. The other 50 percent think it isn't.

You can put these things into the hands of some Chinese and send him to Hong Kong and we'll have cleared chinks.

Texas created more jobs in 2008 than the rest of the states - combined.

And I think that even today, New York still has more of this unexpected quality around every corner than any place else. It's something quite extraordinary