Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.

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.

A warm soak can wash away life’s worries and soothe an active mind. Choose self-care.

Let your star shine so bright such that those still in darkness can finally see the light.

Mortality is one of the greatest gifts ever bestowed. After a long and fruitful life, we are able to rest.

The father receives his power from God (and from his own father). The teacher finds the soil already prepared for obedience, and the political leader has only to harvest what has been sown.

My sangha, what I seem to attract, are people who have been practicing a long time, they're teaching, they're more serious about their spiritual journey.

Life is great and golf has been one of the great parts of it for me.

I want to be like Rocky Balboa. Give me a title shot right away! I'll prove myself.

I'm not a guitarist as far as a technician goes, I just pick it up and play it. Technique doesn't come into it.

If you make children happy now, you will make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it.

Stop talking about the murders, and we won't know they're happening. And then we can all just live in a bubble that isn't reality.