My urge, when I go to the store, is to buy everything. And it's the same when I'm composing. My first instinct is basically to bring the whole store …

- Nico Muhly

In really fancy restaurants they never point to the bathroom, they just gesture toward the bathroom or they'll lead you to the bathroom. The fancier …

- Nico Muhly

I think my generation is a lost generation in a way.

- Nico Muhly

For me the best kind of film music is liturgical music. Liturgical music is essentially a million scores for the same film.

- Nico Muhly

Because I had been in conservatory for so long, I was jealous of my friends in bands.

- Nico Muhly

I'm pretty clear about what I'm capable of doing.

- Nico Muhly

I'm trying to phase out my availability on the phone. People call you when you're walking down the street and say the most random stuff.

- Nico Muhly

Writing orchestra music, you need for the emotional content to come from everyone doing everything together, adding up as it goes, a crowd mentality.

- Nico Muhly

Every couple weeks I'll listen to Sibelius's Seventh Symphony, just to check in, to see how it's doing. It's doing OK.

- Nico Muhly