Twice – Once too often..

And mothers are usually quite trustworthy, as long as your their son. Otherwise look out!.

Everyone has a price..

I hike and make sure everything I eat is organic..

My mother played the piano and my father the violin, I can remember my dad teaching me how to waltz; I had my feet on his, my mother playing the pian….

Until 1943 I received no stipend. I was able to support myself as my mother was the daughter of a relatively wealthy cotton manufacturer..

We live in such a noisy world that many of us have come to be afraid of silence. We think that if only we do a great deal, it does not much matter wh….

Do not serve time, let time serve you..

Always be more than you appear and never appear to be more than you are..

And she walked away, and she walked away, and that was that, and that was that..

The best compliment that has ever been given to me was, I was at the airport one day and a guy came in and said, 'Lionel, my wife loves you, the kids….

My mother, at least twice, cancelled our family's subscription to the newspaper I was working on, because she was so mad about its treatment of my fa….

A lot has been said about single mothers. Most of it has been less than flattering..

In my early life my mother tried to create a nurturing environment in which my mind could play. Her big rule was "Never lose in your imagination." Sh….

I don't talk about money..

We cannot work for others without working for ourselves..

Out of nothing can come, and nothing can become nothing..

Build a life, don't live one....

I do admit to being slightly in love with Christopher Walken..

Except for the violin pieces and a few of my orchestra pieces, all of my works from the Passacaglia on relate to the death of my mother..

My hands and ears get me where I need to go..