I am an arrogant and impatient listener but in the case of a few composers a very few when I hear a work I do not like I am convinced that it is my own fault. Verdi is one of those composers.

Composing is like driving down a foggy road.

The old idea of a composer suddenly having a terrific idea and sitting up all night to write it is nonsense. Nighttime is for sleeping.

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful.

Music does not excite until it is performed.

I am an arrogant and impatient listener, but in the case of a few composers, a very few, when I hear a work I do not like, I am convinced that it is my own fault. Verdi is one of those composers.

One day I'll be able to relax a bit, and try and become a good composer.

I liked the opera very much. Everything but the music.

These two are not two, love has made them one. Amo Ergo Sum! And by its mystery each is no less but more.

The model of a composer.

There are 2 types of people on face the difficulty, :1 - Damn it!2 - Challenge accepted!

Customers don't know what they want until we've shown them.

If you're going through hell, keep going

America can only live up to its potential when each and every American has the chance to live up to your potential, too.

To rage, to lust, to write to, to commend, All is the purlieu of the god of love.

I never personally name anyone. I am not comfortable rating other drivers.

I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions. And the fact that a lot of people break down and cry when confronted with my pictures shows that I can communicate these basic human emotions.

Even popularity can be overdone. In Rome, along at first, you are full of regrets that Michelangelo died; but by and by, you only regret that you didn't see him do it.

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.

The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.