The future belongs to the free..

Donald Trump is the head of a global power..

I'm really not that confident!.

I am but an architectural composer..

I don't like things that aren't true..

I've been on top longer and I am younger. I'm just better..

Vaisey looked like a startled earwig..

I prefer true over happy now..

Nothing can come out of nothing, any more than a thing can go back to nothing..

Stravinsky the composer I worship. Stravinsky the thinker I despise..

Gifted women musicians and composers rarely received their due..

What can go wrong will go wrong..

You can't have Bach, Mozart and Beethoven as your favorite composers. They simply define what music is!.

Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge..

You have to have something to put your work in otherwise it's not valid.

Of all composers, past and present, I am the least learned. I mean that in all seriousness, and by learning I do not mean knowledge of music..

I've lived my life again just telling it to you..

I make movies for money, exclusively for money..

When I got out of college I moved to Seattle because it was the nearest big city and still didn't know if I wanted to be a composer, conductor, singe….

To call somebody a Jewish composer is obviously redundant..

It's hard to decide how to match words to music. It's not like it's twice the work. It's always difficult for me to explain to the composer what I'm ….