Hurry? I have no time to hurry.

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.

This generation does not understand the wealth of time. No wonder there are only a few superstars and great men emerging from this generation.

Because of what Jesus Christ did for us through His cross and resurrection, we know that we have hope for the future.

A cheerful face is nearly as good for an invalid as healthy weather.

Well, certainly I think American television is - that's proper TV.

I made a living out of singing Mexican music.

The only thing worse than a silly politician analyzing art is a silly artist analyzing politics

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

Let's put the jam on the lower shelf so the little people can reach it

Chris Elliott could read the phonebook and he's funny.

I'm afraid I go through the same thing all the time.