We only hear what we listen for.

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.

Everything you do is music, and everywhere is the best seat.

The act of listening is in fact an act of composing.

The world is no longer a romantic place; some of its people still are however, and therein lies the promise. Don't let the world win.

It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else.

If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.

I have nothing to say, and I am saying it.

Good music can act as a guide to good living.

Look at everything. Don't close your eyes to the world around you. Look and become curious and interested in what there is to see.

Complaining is truly my strongest weakness.

Be the love of your love, not the slave of your love.

Eggs, " said Henry dreamily, looking at his plate. "I do love eggs. I could eat them all day.

Art has to keep moving and discovering to stay alive.

I grew up singing. My mother was a music teacher.

Those who have the most wealth and the most property, their children have the first, the best, and the most.

It's nice to be irritated. It's a very joyous thing.

When you miss the target, never in history has it been the target's fault. Ya gotta take responsibility!

Life isn't worth living until you have found something worth dying for.

What was good was that I had friends who were actors and in theatre who were really good, because I think my strengths were visual, like pictorial.