When I want 30 musicians in the orchestra, I get 30.

Any good music must be an innovation.

I'm not an intellectual composer.

I write emotional music.

Under my contract with Capitol, I have complete freedom to do just about anything I want in my own way.

Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers.

I aim my arrangements at what will fit and colorfully frame the song in the best way possible.

I did the Broadway album unfortunately in a year when there were no hits.

I love doing concert music.

That was when the Spanish came in and conquered the Aztecs. I thought that was a clever thing.

In a sense, a hit belongs to the person who made it popular, but if a tune is good enough to attain tremendous success, then it certainly deserves more than one version, one treatment, one approach.

I have learned that many of us simply “See”, .........we hardly “Observe

The tattoo can only exist as part of the skin, as a drawing always is an incision in the material and therefore cannot be parted from it.

Calculating machines do sums better than even the cleverest people… As arithmetic has grown easier, it has come to be less respected.

My cow is not pretty, but it is pretty to me.

The digital revolution has disrupted most traditional media: newspapers, magazines, books, record companies, radio.

No member of our generation who wasn't a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.

The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone.

Although there is a sense in which the camera does indeed capture reality, not just interpret it, photographs are as much an interpretation of the world as paintings and drawings are

I want to get my own show because 'Today' will eventually get tired of me, or the audience will get tired of me.