And yet, she knew she could be..

Music is love, love is music, music is life, and I love my life. Thank you and good night..

Gifts make friends and friends make gifts..

Everything’s better when you’re high..

I write music with an exclamation point!.

We are far more like somebody watching ourselves than somebody in charge of ourselves..

My Peace I leave with you.

Never look at the trombones, it only encourages them..

I know absolutely nothing about music..

I love to sing. It's the easiest thing for me to do..

Who do you serve? Do you serve somebody? I serve the poem, no one..

I am a romantic, I admit it..

I don't develop; I am..

He is coming, and I am here..

I'm not God, don't intend to be and hope I never have that much power..

Courage, Alexan­der,” she whis­pered. “Courage, Ta­tiana..

All my work comes out of my life..

Courage, Alexander..... Courage, Tatiana.

I respect music, I do. I love it..

If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music..

Better to be the failure who nobly strived than the success who never really had to..