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

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

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.

To cherish perfection is to commit creative suicide, and every true artist knows that a masterpiece is an accident that should be burned.

I believe that if children fall in love with wildlife they will grow up wanting to protect it.

We recognised that the youth demographic needed to be pursued, preferably with dogs.

Successful companies are started, and made successful, by at least two, and usually more, soulmates.

People not only gain understanding through reflection, they evaluate and alter their own thinking.

There's an ecstatic side to writing. It's like jazz. It just has a life.

There are two kinds of stones, as everyone knows, one of which rolls.

Don't plan to repent at the 11th hour - you may die at 10:30.

I need to be the best Chris Brown I can be.

Ive managed to dodge the curse. Not all my family have. Of course, music helped me - music is all about civilization, about something worthwhile. Its all about ideas.