Sometimes when you're overwhelmed by a situation - when you're in the darkest of darkness - that's when your priorities are reordered.
I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God.
The composer. . . joins Heaven and Earth with threads of sounds.
To me, atonality is against nature. There is a center to everything that exists. The planets have the sun, the earth, the moon.
My purpose is to create music not for snobs, but for all people, music which is beautiful and healing. To attempt what old Chinese painters called 'spirit resonance' in melody and sound.
This is not to say that the Scots are not fine people, but they were all sort of. . . well, my grandfather was a minister and sort of Protestant, and this was rather depressing to me.
I was much more interested in the orchestra than the piano, but I did become fairly proficient as a pianist and my teachers felt I had talent and wanted me to become a good concert pianist and earn my living that way.
If there's one thing I would like to see, it'd be for us to be able to price the cost of carbon emissions.
The public library is a center of public happiness first, of public education next.
Took me by the hand, she's gonna love me in my Chevy Van.
Great wealth often curses all who touch it.