I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know...
Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music....
Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that...
The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that...
The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to...
I haven't understood a bar of music in my life but I have felt it.
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes...
A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy...
Lesser artists borrow great artists steal.
Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of...
People who think my books are autobiographical which they're not credit me with having a much better memory than I do. I do however have a powerful imagination.