If music is frozen architecture, then the potpourri is frozen coffee-table gossip... Potpourri is the art of adding apples to pears.

If it is art, it is not for all, and if it is for all, it is not art.

Music is only understood when one goes away singing it and only loved when one falls asleep with it in one's head, and finds it still there on waking up the next morning.

There is still plenty of good music to be written in C major.

I find above all that the expression, atonal music, is most unfortunate — it is on a par with calling flying the art of not falling, or swimming the art of not drowning.

My music is not modern, it is merely badly played

My work should be judged as it enters the ears and heads of listeners, not as it is described to the eyes of readers.

I am the slave of an internal power more powerful than my education.

Composing is a slowed-down improvisation; often one cannot write fast enough to keep up with the stream of ideas.

You cannot expect the Form before the Idea,For they will come into being together.

My music is not lovely.

Leadership is about focus and concentrations. To be in focus, choose a clear direction. To concentrate, remain in that direction!

Love is the greatest gift that God has given us. It's free.

We're always looking for the backbone, the central idea, and once you have that you know everything can circle around it.

It is profound philosophy to sound the depths of feeling and distinguish traits of character. Men must be studied as deeply as books.

some of us have so much defeat in our past that we feel we lost the race before we knew it started.

Trying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space.

The other day, when my 4-year-old saw a flowering tree and said, "Daddy, it's raining petals," that was poetry that just melted my heart into a mushy, yummy Fudgsicle.

But the important thing is to lie down and fall asleep. That little nap means you wake up fresh again and can continue.

Students should not feel as if they had missed the boat if they failed examinations and should be presented with more opportunities to further their studies.

Without action, you aren't going anywhere.