The public doesn't want new music the main thing that it demands of a composer is that he be dead.

The public doesn't want new music; the main thing it demands of a composer is that he be dead.

The modern composer is a madman who persists in manufacturing an article which nobody wants.

Composing is not a profession. It is a maniaa harmless madness.

The first requirement for a composer is to be dead.

I have always loved locomotives passionately. For me they are living creatures and I love them as others love women or horses.

Music is geometry in time.

I hear a small voicein the back of my mindand it is chanting a prayer:‘Please don’t fall in love again, please don’t fall in love again.’Maybe this time I will listen.Maybe this I will learn.

I'm actually pretty shy in real life. But I guess in front of the camera, I focus.

Surrender is surrender to this moment, not to a story through which you interpret this moment and then try to resign yourself to it.

I used to look like a deer in headlights on the red carpet. You step out of the car and it's bedlam. Everyone's got crazy eyes.

I was a little concerned that a lot of people thought I wrote Merchant Ivory movies. I also thought if I was ever going to write something strange and difficult, that was the time.

My occupational hazard is that I can't help plagiarizing from real life.

No matter at what speed I move forward, I am never satisfied.

It's important that I get time to run, to just go for a jog for about 30 minutes. It helps with my voice, but it also kind of gives me a little bit of time to myself - and you get to see a city.

Tyson! Thank the gods, Annabeth is hurt!" "You thank the gods that she is hurt?" he asked, puzzled.

There is no need to seek truth, only stop having views.