Look for the music on all things, and life will be a symphony of joy. My music is best understood by children and animals.

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.

I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.

One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.

My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.

Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.

Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa Lobos?

Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?

I take no pride in my artistic talents; they are God-given and I see absolutely no reason to become puffed up over something that one has received.

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

We can build anything in our imagination that's where all creation begins in your life

Sunrise is starting to feel like a guilt trip.

Where would we be without it, memory? Well, it'll never die here. Never in this country. We feed it too well.

Music is about communication... it isn't just something that maybe physically sounds good or orally sounds interesting; it's something far, far deeper than that.

I love black truffles. I love white truffles.

If you run away from a thing just because you don't like it, you don't like what you find either.

Is your transgression forgiven?

Buy only because something excites you, not just for the simple act of shopping.

Shakespeare's taught me that there are more words in the English language than I have got in my head.