The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.

I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.

One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.

My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.

Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.

Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa Lobos?

Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?

I take no pride in my artistic talents; they are God-given and I see absolutely no reason to become puffed up over something that one has received.

Integrity must become a personal goal of a growing majority in America if we want to be a major world influence.

The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel... its poverty by how little.

A scary movie or a book isn't still made. But I'm waiting for that!

It is a poor critic who says that a lack of effect on them implies all others are insincere in their love.

There’s nothing like a military man, even out of uniform.

Nobody wants to read about a good-looking happy person.

Intelligent martial arts is not getting in battles and winning them. Intelligent martial arts is avoiding battles because battles use up energy, and you can get hurt no matter who you are.

In simplicity, there is freedom - freedom to do less and enjoy more.

Tell me I can't so I can show you I CAN!

God first seeks devotion to Him in the hidden place–worship when no one else is watching.