Nature endows us with the feeling that moves us in all our musical experiences; we might call her gift instinct.

We must have recourse to the rules of music when our genius and our ear seem to deny what we are seeking.

I try to conceal art with art.

When reason and instinct are reconciled, there will be no higher appeal.

Music is a science which should have definite rules; these rules should be drawn from an evident principle; and this principle cannot really be known to us without the aid of mathematics.

Emphasis on the common emotive or affective origins of music and words in the first cries of humankind undermines words.

Rhythm and sounds are born with syllables.

In f-major, c* is a sonority contained within the overtones of the tonic f*.

Verse, singing, and speech have a common origin.

Sometimes, I sit down to sketch at the unearthly hour of 3 in the morning!

The creation of the UCB Theatre is by far my proudest professional accomplishment.

I got into a Broadway show before I ever sang and danced. I learned how after I got in the show.

According to Zen Buddhist cosmology there are ten thousand different states of mind to view and understand life through.

You can say, "Well, I have a question," and someone will say, "Oh, so you hate America." And it has nothing to do with the discussion at all.

Victory is much more meaningful when it comes not just from one person, but from the joint achievements of many.

Since at least the Middle Ages, philosophers and philologists have dreamed of curing natural languages of their flaws by constructing entirely new idioms according to orderly, logical principles.

Steve Jobs was a digital pioneer, but when he went home, he listened to vinyl.

No hour brings good fortune to one man without bringing misfortune to another.

I was an incredible Anglophile. I found people who shared the same sense of humor and attitude toward the world.