I've been things and seen places.
The difference between the student and the born composer is he really hears the thing, and they have to stage it and manipulate it by technical equipment.
Improvisation is terribly haphazard.
Of all the arts, music is really the most abstract.
Besides merely some pleasure that we get out of the combinations of pitches together and lines, I think that there is some satisfaction that we get in the fact of having this diffuse thing organized very concretely and put onto a frame and have it actually decided.
I'm really interested in writing a piece of music that will move you, that will really move you. That is really the only reason that I'm writing music.
It doesn't necessarily mean at all that the composer plays his own works best.
In light of Jamey [Rodemeyer]'s death -- it became clear to me in an instant that living a gay life without publicly acknowledging it -- is simply not enough to make any significant contribution to the immense work that lies ahead on the road to complete equality.
We all have a choice. We all have a say. We are spectators in life or we get in and play. Whichever we choose, how we handle lifes game, the choices are ours no one else is to blame.
The ways of Wayne are mysterious and incomprehensible.
Being happy is not all about love! Love is not everything. Work, friends, and achieving things. . . your finite thing in life can't be getting married and having children. Like, creating a life for myself that's my own, and my own road? That was always the most important thing for me. Right now, I have a kid and stuff, and it's fantastic to be a mother, but it's not the final thing. You want to stay an individual. You need to stay an individual for your kid, as an example of what a human being should be! You want to stay true to yourself and not become a half a person. That is so, so important.