I must confess, my Spanish is not so good - except I read a little, so I started with the English but then determined that it would have to be in Spanish.

If we look at music history closely, it is not difficult to isolate certain elements of great potency which were to nourish the art of music for decades, if not centuries.

Although technical discussions are interesting to composers, I suspect that the truly magical and spiritual powers of music arise from deeper levels of our psyche.

The rhythms of nature - the sounds of wind and water, the sounds of birds and insects - must inevitably find their analogues in music.

Perhaps two million years ago the creatures of a planet in some remote galaxy faced a musical crisis similar to that which we earthly composers face today.

The retrospective glance is a relatively easy gesture for us to make.

The advent of electronically synthesized sound after World War II has unquestionably had enormous influence on music in general.

Perhaps of all the most basic elements of music, rhythm most directly affects our central nervous system.

I believe that music surpasses even language in its power to mirror the innermost recesses of the human soul

Music might be defined as a system of proportions in the service of a spiritual impulse

I am certain that most composers today would consider today's music to be rich, not to say confusing, in its enormous diversity of styles, technical procedures, and systems of esthetics.

Be determined to live in the light.

My short love story gave me lots of memories but i never wanted memories, I wanted you.

Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.

A lot of people my age are dead and you could look it up.

I have a comprehensive energy policy, but it really does include fighting climate change, because I think that is a serious problem.

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.

I'm interested in impacting people with life lessons that they can pass on. A touchdown is only remembered for one Sunday, but a lesson that can be passed on to your kids is Paramount.

The world's five thousand extant languages are products of our shared ability, but the five thousand cultures they create are separate from each other.

We know enough at this moment to say that the God of Abraham is not only unworthy of the immensity of creation; he is unworthy even of man.

Union is as if in a room there were two large windows through which the light streamed in; it enters in different places but it all becomes one.