Lucidity is the first purpose of color in music.

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.

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

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

Talent is nothing without persistence.

Money's easy to make if it's money you want. But with few exceptions people don't want money. They want luxury and they want love and they want admiration.

You can understand my inner reactionsmore clearly than me because you can see me as a whole.

ASPERSE, v.t. Maliciously to ascribe to another vicious actions which one has not had the temptation and opportunity to commit.

The theory of the free press is not that the truth will be presented completely or perfectly in any one instance, but that the truth will emerge from free discussion

I love religions and find them fascinating, and I find Judaism very beautiful. It's enriched my life enormously.

This hole in my heart is in the shape of you. No one else can fit it. Why would I want them to?

Music is my juice. I like building gear and making records.

We need to give importance to skill development because this way we can end unemployment.

If I could only fly, you see, a lot of my problems would be gone. When you think of just how much I'd save on shoes alone.