I was once married to a woman who could eat anything and tell you what was in it: the most complicated recipes. Her memory of taste - now that's what I call memory!

Music can imply the infinite if enough things depart from the norm far enough. Strange "abnormal" events can lead to the feeling that anything can happen, and you have a music with no boundaries.

The tragedy of music is that it begins with perfection.

We do not hear what we hear..., only what we remember.

The composer makes plans, music laughs.

Do we have anything in music that really wipes everything out? That just cleans everything away?

Most music is metaphor, but Wolff is not. I am not metaphor either. Parable, maybe. Cage is sermon.

Music is essentially built upon primitive memory structures.

I never understood what rules I was supposed to learn, and what rules I was supposed to break

If you think you might have secret information listening to me, you're lost.

Compositionally I always wanted to be like Fred Astaire.

Are artists and writers the only people entitled to lives of their own?

One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors.

So, what are you?""What I am is someone who doesn't want you to jump out of the window. The rest are details.

I am like a kid. I tell my family and friends I'm like a kid.

My dad always told me, 'I don't care what you do. Just aim to be the best at it. Even if it's the world's best window cleaner.'

Either black people end up being the best in sports, or else it's show business. You know, we all got rhythm.

Frost in January minus 20 for a week. Dead birds frozen on the branch—they fall with the first thaw like ripe fruit—death-ripened. We shall all end like them—just a stain in the snow.

My theory of what makes people likeable stars is that they're likeable.

I know winning 20 is a special kind of thing, but I'd rather get into the playoffs, and be strong for the playoffs.

We'd all [with Mike Mitchell] been together at Dreamworks for over ten years, so we all had the same goals.