Tradition is laziness.

Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.

If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.

Beauty and fullness of tone can be achieved by having the whole orchestra play with high clarinets and a carefully selected number of piccolos.

You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion.

The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause.

What is best in music is not to be found in the notes.

A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything.

But it's peculiar, as soon as I am in the midst of nature and by myself, everything that is base and trivial vanishes without trace. On such days nothing scares me; and this helps me again and again.

I am hitting my head against the walls, but the walls are giving way.

If you think you're boring your audience, go slower not faster.

Every word, every image used for God is a distortion more than a description.

If you cannot attract a woman, you are, by definition, sterile.

Love deeply without any fear of being hurt.

Tom's Navy SEAL team nicknamed him 'Tailspin', especially after sustaining his knee injury, but Joe likes to call him his 'Lucky Charm' -- saved his tail too many times to count.

We need to learn that truth consists not in correct doctrine, but in correct doctrine plus the inward enlightenment of the Holy Spirit.

I went to all the Love-Ins. I took my kids. I enjoyed myself.

The difference between a learned man and an ignorant one is the same as that between a living man and a corpse.

Basketball is a beautiful game when the five players on the court play with one heartbeat.

We're not as different as we think we are.

On rides you see things that trigger ideas. And most the time it's just not doing anything but riding ... letting it all go.