Of course he seems to have quite a mind of his own and that is probably where he is weakest.

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.

Every hurt buried deepin the mindhas an uncanny abilityto surface and make its presence feltwhen I am feeling low, hugging me like a long lost friend

A man is not a tree'...If we remain where we start from we will neither grow nor flourish.

In the real world in which we live, you always have to choose between evils. And in choosing between evils, you have to have moral criteria for how to make those choices.

It is in vain that he seeks dominion abroad, who is not kingly at home.

That which is lacking in the present world is a profound knowledge of the nature of things.

I never really worried about those hurdles. They were just standing there, and I was always zooming past them just to get back on the ground again.

I'm quite a neurotic thinker, quite an adrenalized person. But after meditation, I felt this beautiful serenity and selfless connection.

Five years ago I was a four-stone apology — today I am two separate gorillas.

One bug in an SMTP server can open up the whole machine for intrusion.

The kickboxing and the martial arts is so fun. It's like anything in school. You're not going to retain information unless you're interested in it.