Music does not excite until it is performed.

Composing is like driving down a foggy road.

The old idea of a composer suddenly having a terrific idea and sitting up all night to write it is nonsense. Nighttime is for sleeping.

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful.

I am an arrogant and impatient listener, but in the case of a few composers, a very few, when I hear a work I do not like, I am convinced that it is my own fault. Verdi is one of those composers.

One day I'll be able to relax a bit, and try and become a good composer.

I liked the opera very much. Everything but the music.

These two are not two, love has made them one. Amo Ergo Sum! And by its mystery each is no less but more.

The model of a composer.

I am an arrogant and impatient listener but in the case of a few composers a very few when I hear a work I do not like I am convinced that it is my own fault. Verdi is one of those composers.

Our neighbors shake their heads And take their valuables inside While my countrymen piss in the fountains To express their national pride.

Words may help and silence may help, but the one thing needful is that the heart should turn to its Maker as the needle turns to the pole. For this we must be still.

In the modern technoindustrial culture, it is possible to proceed from infancy into senility without ever knowing manhood.

Men in plural […] can experience meaningfulness only because they can talk with and make sense to each other and themselves.

When we die, the money we can't keep, But we probably spend it all 'cause the pain ain't cheap...

They tore out my heart and stomped that sucker flat.

Diversification is your buddy.

Environment is stronger than will.

As the cost of gasoline rises and our dependence on foreign oil continues to increase, the effect of sending over $100 billion each year to OPEC nations hurts every American.

We have been so blinded by thinking and feeling that we have never seen the World.