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

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.

The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.

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

My music is best understood by children and animals.

Hurry! I never hurry. I have no time to hurry. - Responding to his publisher's request that he hurry his completion of a composition.