There are no more geniuses, only critics.

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.

The capacity for erroneous belief is very great, especially where it coincides with convenience.

I'm very loyal in relationships. Even when I go out with my mom I don't look at other moms.

If it was necessary to tolerate in other people everything that one permits oneself, life would be unbearable.

How did they know that I was the one who saved them?" "They don't. You're the third knight they've celebrated over since it happened.

Inspiration comes from everywhere always. But it's strongest in love and in its absence.

Did something happen to the sanctity of your church again?" My eye twitched. "Newt broke it so she could look in my closet." Again.

Wit and humor belong to genius alone.

Growth springs from better recipes, not just from more cooking.

The 80/20 Principle, like the truth, can make you free. You can work less. At the same time, you can earn more and enjoy more. The only price is that you need to do some serious 80/20 thinking.

To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.