Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.

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 bruise is a lesson... and each lesson makes us better.

Today every believer has the potential to become a savior and a deliverer in his own area of specialization if only he/she make himself available

If they drive God from the earth, we shall shelter Him underground.

We find it easy to believe that praise is sincere: why should anyone lie in telling us the truth?

If you decide that you are making love to have a child then you are to prepare. Prepare physiologically, spiritually, and know that you have enough money to give him what you have to give him.

In New York people don't go to the theatre - they go to see hits.

I pick and choose what I want to do at any given time, and what not to do, importantly. My agents, I won't hear about any offers or options.

We exist to exhibit God, to display his glory. We serve as canvases for his brush stroke, papers for his pen, soil for his seeds, glimpses of his image.

I think a philistine environment should be bracing for young artists. You have to make your own enjoyment, you've got to make your own art.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.