You write it down because finally, when it's written down you do get it out of your system somewhat.

Improvisation is terribly haphazard.

To the person that deals in visualizations, I suppose there is something rather exciting about a whole set of people - they all going symmetrically, up or down, in a military sort of precision.

Today each composer is not only involved in aesthetics, but he's actually trying to create his own language.

Of all the arts, music is really the most abstract.

The difference between the student and the born composer is he really hears the thing, and they have to stage it and manipulate it by technical equipment.

I distrust anything that you don't hear.

It doesn't necessarily mean at all that the composer plays his own works best.

By the visual pattern, but mostly I'm guided entirely by my ear, what I hear.

Hopefully, I have a certain amount of what you call musical talent.

I think there have been some periods when the writing almost became a bit of a burden.

Old houses were scaffolding once and workmen whistling.

Kazemi has to understand that nobody is going to tell him he has to go back to Iran if he misses a shot.

Surround yourself with positive people and positive influences.

Displease the Winter King and we'll none of us see another spring.

Only two of my personalities are schizophrenic, but one of them is paranoid and the other one is out to get him. Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Welcome any change that comes into any phase in your life; insist that it is going to turn out for the better - and it will. See the Angel of God in it, and the Angel of God will make all things new.

We should all learn to take things easily - other people's things.

Reputation ... is as often gained without merit as lost without a crime.

I try to work all over the canvas at once, because I feel that the forces of nature are unpredictable.

Imperfection is not our personal problem - it is a natural part of existing.