There are still so many beautiful things to be said in C major.

My chief virtue (or if you like, defect) has been a tireless lifelong search for an original, individual musical idiom. I detest imitation, I detest hackneyed devices.

Formalism is music that people don't understand at first hearing.

I detest imitation, I detest hackneyed devices.

I want nothing better, more flexible or more complete than the sonata form, which contains everything necessary for my structural purposes.

At home we didnt talk about religion. So gradually the question faded away by itself and disappeared from the agenda. When I was nineteen my father died; my response to his death was atheistic.

My mother had to explain that one couldnt compose a Liszt rhapsody because it was a piece of music that Liszt himself had composed.

Life is like our heart, the people are the nerve's and society is the brain

Preston doesn't do well with trouble. But that's why I'm here. That's why my name is Mommy.

Logos are the bleating of the insecure, desperate for acceptance by the chronically shallow.

Creating something is only half the battle. The other half is finding people who care about it.

Freely the subject makes himself what he is, never in this life is the making finished, always it is in process, always it is a precarious achievement that can slip and fall and shatter.

It's not okay for a woman to be in control of her own body, her own reproductive system, much less of her life. There's opposition even to that. So passivity is rewarded as feminine.

The mathematician's best work is art, a high perfect art, as daring as the most secret dreams of imagination, clear and limpid. Mathematical genius and artistic genius touch one another.

I used to get embarrassed about the fact I liked fashion. I still get a bit cringy.

I'm supposed to make people cry, but not by manipulating.

The United States abd usually be reiled on to do the right thing, but only after they have tried all the other alternatives.