So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.

To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.

The greatest moments of the human spirit may be deduced from the greatest moments in music.

Most people use music as a couch; they want to be pillowed on it, relaxed and consoled for the stress of daily living. But serious music was never meant to be soporific.

Listening to the Fifth Symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams is like staring at a cow for 45 minutes.

The main thing is to be satisfied with your work yourself. It's useless to have an audience happy if you are not happy.

If you want to know about the Sixties, play the music of The Beatles.

Music that is born complex is not inherently better or worse than music that is born simple.

Composers tend to assume that everyone loves music. Surprisingly enough, everyone doesn’t.

A melody is not merely something you can hum.

Someone once asked me... whether I waited for inspiration. My answer was: "Every day!"

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair

I think Scotland could take a stand in a wonderful way, ecologically and morally and ethically.

I would like to go on that path of evolving into a better actor.

Strangers are what friends are made of.

Every experience has its element of magic.

[My work as a photographer is a] mission to document endangered species and landscapes in order to show a world worth saving.

We teach what we know, but we reproduce what we are.

It is difficult for the American mind to adjust to the realization that the Rhetts and the Scarletts were as much monsters as the keepers of Buchenwald-they just dressed more attractively.

On all basic points our policies have proved correct from the very beginning.

Baseball is a lot like life. The line drives are caught, the squibbles go for base hits. It's an unfair game.