I don't dare postulate about science, but I know that it takes both emotion and intellect in order for art to happen.

It is obvious that anything a scientist discovers or invents is based on previous discoveries and inventions. The same applies to the arts.

Why do we pigeonhole and label an artist? It is a sure way of missing the important, the contradictory, the things that make him or her unique.

Most people think an artist tries to be original, but originality is the last thing that develops in the artist.

It is the element I miss in electronic music - no performance, no loving immersion. Maybe that is why I was never particularly drawn to electronic music.

Great music does not just make me feel good. It means something. It makes us understand. It makes us happy.

Since age seven, I've been composing and have never stopped composing, yet, the creative process is as elusive to me as it has ever been.

I strongly suggest that we play down basics like who influenced whom, and instead study the way the influence is transformed, in other words: how the artist made it his own.

There is another interesting paradox here: by immersing ourselves in what we love, we find ourselves. We do not lose ourselves. One does not lose one's identity by falling in love.

Any creator owes a debt to past creation.

The fact that Stravinsky used the classics as a major influence is obvious. What is interesting is how he used them, how he turned Bach into Stravinsky.

Full emergency power to the engines. Ram the Blade ship.

High culture is the ability to hear the William Tell Overture and not think of the Lone Ranger.

My theory is children don't do what you tell them to do, they do what you do. You have to always do the right thing because they follow you.

Those whom the world has delighted to honor have oftener been influenced in their doings by ambition and vanity than by patriotism.

I played football, honestly, to get a scholarship.

The best thing that you can do to this world is to be joyous. Being joyful, is the greatest offering you can make to the world.

Capital in the hands of a national government forms a part of the gross national capital.

The house should derive dignity from the master, not the master from the house.

You are Insignificant. One of millions, neither special nor unique. I did not ask for this ignominy, and I resent the comparison. Fine. I don't you like you, either.

There is something out of gear about graded schools and all that. Memory is developed at the expense of what in general we are pleased to call thought and character.