I’ve always felt that music should be a normal part of the experience that surrounds people.

That is basically me, and although I have done many things in my life - conducting, playing piano, and so on - what is fundamental is my being a composer.

It's not a special taste. An American composer should have something to say to a cab driver.

The purpose of discovering your purpose is so that you can fulfill it.

Most men, if you just tell them what to do in a businesslike fashion, will follow directions without thinking about it. One proceeds on the assumption that they'll do as they're told, and they do.

The best of all lost arts is honesty

You have half our gifts. I the other. Together we make a whole. Together we are much more powerful.

I just feel like sometimes I'm a force to be dealt with. My talents are sometimes overused and also sometimes underused. It's not easy being me.

I saw you in the library. With—” “ Colonel Mustard?

There's so much information that there is disinformation.

Several indisputable facts appear evident in geological and climate science that make me a true 'denier' of human-caused global warming.

If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy, for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.

I don't weigh a pound over one hundred and eighty and, what's more, I never did.