What force is more potent than love?

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.

RECURRENT CURRENTSLike the ocean, life ebbs and flows with the occasional ripKamil Ali

The artist never really has any control over the impact of his work. If he starts thinking about the impact of his work, then he becomes a lesser artist.

For what fortress, what city, in the wide extent of the Roman empire, can hope to exist, secure and impregnable, if it is our pleasure that it should be erased from the earth?

It's not like I let people do things for me, so I guess you can call me a control freak, or you can call me passionate.

Swimming is good for you, especially if you're drowning. Not only do you get a cardiovascular workout but also you don't die.

Once when I'd been in a lot of bunkers, my caddie told me he was getting blisters from raking so much.

Maintain your post: That's all the fame you need; For 'tis impossible you should proceed.

I'm a great bowler. I was in a couple of leagues as a kid.

My life is one long curve, full of turning points.

I write essays to clear my mind. I write fiction to open my heart.