Still, American composers working in France have had a pretty hard time.

There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people.

The academic area of new music or modern music festivals is not something which attracts me at all.

I have friends who have a CD mastering plant in Hollywood and they are very sceptical about European record labels' understanding of digital technology.

Similarly you can make a transition from one set of instruments to another imperceptibly.

I am writing something which I find satisfying and which I am prepared to put my name to as a composer.

Music history has flowed under the bridges for many years.

I remember once, when I started writing for the alto saxophone, a saxophonist told me to think of it as being like a cross between an oboe and a viola, but louder.

Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century.

It's rather like attending a university seminar where you are talking to a few gifted specialists who deliver a paper to an audience of their peers. That's one way of making music.

One thing I'm doing on the new Titanic recording is actually bringing in different acoustic spaces.

(Suguri) You had an extra long walk, didn't you...? Let's go home...

I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music.

I am alone I am always alone no matter what.

The young know how truly difficult and dreadful youth can be. Their youth is wasted on everyone else, that's the horror. The young have no authority, no respect.

The only man never to be redeemed is the man without passion.

Wealth is always attracted, never pursued.

Kindness is not a bad religion, no matter what name you use for God.

Each of us must turn inward and destroy in himself all that he thinks he ought to destroy in others.

I'll be at Lambeth telling my story

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