I don't think events in your life affect your music.

It's true that I tend to daydream. I'm the same person in business as I am in music: I can be distracted and absentminded. It's my style.

I just have to take my chances like any other composer.

I feel that I belong to the 19th century. Some composers' music is very topical. It almost says, 'This is about what I read in newspapers yesterday.' Not mine.

I see only adaptations - not revolutions.

Ive managed to dodge the curse. Not all my family have. Of course, music helped me - music is all about civilization, about something worthwhile. Its all about ideas.

If you have more money than you need, you have to give it away. It's a duty. I get to choose whom to sponsor, and I like to give to the areas that I know something about.

My music is all about an idealistic human personality. I have 19th-century ideals.

My father was so much more than an accomplished businessman.

I've had every advantage in the world, despite the 18 years of silence which were nobody's fault but mine.

Nicolette, Kendalle, and Alexandra are my children. Their mother, Cynthia Beck, and I, love them very much.

A library could show you everything if you knew where to look.

Take a moment to think... See - logically.

No man is good for anything who has not some particle of obstinacy to use upon occasion.

The whole Bible is the story of men and women trying to get back to God, to overcome that sin with sacrifices, good works, sermons, prophesy, witnessing, giving all kinds of things. It never worked

To expect reason is where the fallacy lies.

It is rather to be chosen than great riches, unless I have omitted something from the quotation.

To whatever degree we are alert, aware, to that degree we are living

A Grandmother is a safe haven.

Show business is really 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent being able to handle it when it gets offered to you.

I know what falling off the cliff means. I know from being considered a very bright kid to being considered like a moron and dropping out of school.