If our music survives, which I have no doubt it will, then it will because it is good.

I think that the great part of creativity is overcoming fear. Fear is a given. When you sit down and have to begin something, don't be afraid to be filled with fear, because it goes with the turf.

The fact that certain composers have been able to create first-class music within the medium of film proves that film music can be as good as the composer is gifted.

Sounds mean nothing without music.

I like the variety. But basically my choice of films is a small intimate film. Quiet film, no action, just people in relationships. That's what I like the most.

My wife has them all in a vault... a copy of every album.

I've been using the Mac solely for years, and got very comfortable with it.

Jerry Goldsmith is an artist who meets all the demands upon the composer in films. He communicates, integrates, subordinates, supports, and designs with discipline.

Kingsley nodded. 'Of course. Sophia always did say wisdom had to be earned.

Take principles, not just religion, to people

Without the harmonious electrochemical activity of all the brain structure, the very thing which we call "mind", would suddenly disappear from the face of earth.

Boredom comes from a boring mind.

One day in retrospect the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

In the act of giving lies the expression of my aliveness.

Science and religion are, of course, two different ways of looking at the universe; and it's the same universe with two different windows.

What you think is a setback, is really a set-up for a greater comeback!

Body my house my horse my hound what will I do when you are fallen

This whole celebrity-fame thing is interesting. I'm the same person I always was. The only difference between being famous and not being famous is that people know who you are.