Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.

I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.

One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.

My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.

Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.

Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa Lobos?

Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?

I take no pride in my artistic talents; they are God-given and I see absolutely no reason to become puffed up over something that one has received.

Most ladies do not understand that first and primary they need to find and fulfil their life calling

Our praying, to be strong, must be buttressed by holy living. The life of faith perfects the prayer of faith.

The Book of Mormon offers so much that broadens our understandings of the doctrines of salvation. Without it, much of what is taught in other scriptures would not be nearly so plain and precious.

The skeptics who say it can't be done are simply in extremely limited states of mind. They can't even perceive the possibility of anybody doing something that they can't do.

The foolish reject what they see, not what they think; the wise reject what they think, not what they see.

If you want to do something for your children and show how much you love them, the single best thing-by far-is to support organizations that will create a better world for them and their children.

It's hard for black women to ask for help. We think we don't need it. We're used to being in pain and living with it.

Why follow the steps of another to find out where our dreams will lead us.

All who do evil and dishonorable things do them against their will.

Accepting your teen's individuality and natural evolution is one of the most difficult challenges you'll face as a parent.