They eat the dainty food of famous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes mostly composed of garlic and tomatoes or fisherman's octopus and shrimps fried in heavily scented olive oil on a little deserted beach.

You'll know if you're a famous composer if 20 years from now your name appears on a pull-down menu in Band in a Box alongside Hans Zimmer.

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men women an occasional animal and the common cold.

I did not compose my work as one might put on a church vestment... rather it sprung from the truly fervent faith of my heart such as I have felt it since my childhood.

We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces which represent 30% of our musical experience.

Common sense is the measure of the possible it is composed of experience and prevision it is calculation applied to life.

I began my career with infantile dreams of becoming a composer.

I think there's a time as a writer when you want to see the best things in life and you go out wherever you go with your dreams as a writer or a composer.

Our life is composed greatly from dreams from the unconscious and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.

Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.