Vivaldi didn't write 400 concertos; he wrote one concerto 400 times.

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.

People like him, who buried their past so determinedly, should not help it from the grave so easily.

How you bring people into your home is just as important as when they walk through the door. Frame well. #marketing

Laughter is much better than anger.

The humans were protecting their heritage, or so they thought. Strange that Mud Men seem more concerned about the past than the present.

If people are not laughing at your goals, your goals are too small.

Long before being nerdy was cool, there was Leonard Nimoy.

Most people tend to think the best of those who are blessed with beauty; we have difficulty imagining that physical perfection can conceal twisted emotions or a damaged mind.

Playing drums or music, being a musician, is inside of you. So you would always see me tapping on something, playing on tables... I never felt the need to pull out drums.

It is only Christianity, the great bond of love and duty to God, that makes any existence valuable or even tolerable.

To the man grown the long crowded mile of his boyhood becomes less than the throw of a stone.