Irving Berlin has no place in American music -- he is American music.

Musical numbers should carry the action of the play and should be representative of the personalities of the characters who sing them.

The fact that the theatregoing public likes my music is no credit to me. There are many other composers who write better music that the public doesn't like.

Cartoonist Walt Disney has made the twentieth century's only important contribution to music. Disney has made use of music as language.

Go on being uncommercial. There's a lot of money in it.

We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.

After all, all knowledge simply means self-knowledge.

Every night I talk to God, but he don't say nothing back. I know he protecting me, but I still stay with my gat.

I always wanted to be an artist, I just didn't know that you could be, or how you could be. I went to an art high school but they never even took me to a gallery.

You know, one day you're being briefed on world affairs and asked to make decisions, and the next, you're in Crawford, Texas ... and the biggest decision is when do you go mountain bike riding.

The most critical thing in a negotiation is to get inside your opponent's head and figure out what he really wants.

To me, I think the core values that will help create the world that we're striving to live in are constant.

As a result of this article, I was invited to testify in the Senate Judiciary Committee on privacy law.

He, who loves the bristle of bayonets, only sees in their glitter what beforehand he feels in his hand.