I distrust anything that you don't hear.

Improvisation is terribly haphazard.

To the person that deals in visualizations, I suppose there is something rather exciting about a whole set of people - they all going symmetrically, up or down, in a military sort of precision.

Today each composer is not only involved in aesthetics, but he's actually trying to create his own language.

Of all the arts, music is really the most abstract.

The difference between the student and the born composer is he really hears the thing, and they have to stage it and manipulate it by technical equipment.

It doesn't necessarily mean at all that the composer plays his own works best.

By the visual pattern, but mostly I'm guided entirely by my ear, what I hear.

Hopefully, I have a certain amount of what you call musical talent.

I think there have been some periods when the writing almost became a bit of a burden.

But in the end, music is ultimately an aural art, pure and simple.

The purpose of God's Word is to transform people in every country and every century into the image of God.

You are a manipulator.I like to think of myself more as an outcome engineer.

TempleTemple is a place where God stays, In your heart is where God lays.So if you can touch the God inside your heart, Divine bliss shall always become your part.

History is not a toboggan slide, but a road to be reconsidered and even retraced

Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better.

My father was never around. But I glorified my father, and I was always daddy's little girl. He was my first soccer coach.

This album was designed to touch your soul.

He who devoutly hears holy Mass will receive a great vigor to enable him to resist mortal sin, and there shall be pardoned to him all venial sins which he may have committed up to that hour.

Sad songs seem to work for me, but I don't want to be redundant; I want to add a little flavor.

They have a plentiful lack of wit.