The love you feel in life is a reflection of the love you feel in yourself.
I would give my best quartet for a good razor.
Young people can learn from my example that something can come from nothing. What I have become is the result of my hard efforts.
When I think of my God, my heart dances within me for joy, and then my music has to dance, too.
Never was I so devout as when I composed The Creation. I knelt down each day to pray to God to give me strength for my work. . . . When I was working on The Creation I felt so impregnated with Divine certainty, that before sitting down to the piano, I would quietly and confidently pray to God to grant me the talent that was needed to praise Him worthily.
Since God has given me a cheerful heart, He will forgive me for serving Him cheerfully.
It is the melody which is the charm of music, and it is that which is most difficult to produce. The invention of a fine melody is a work of genius.
My pieces usually are programmed on concerts in which the other works are standard repertoire. My music always sounds very different when it's on a concert of all contemporary music. It always seems to stick out at an odd angle. This also makes me think of a question I sometimes debate with my friends: does the music of a composer directly reflect that composer's personality? This is a difficult one, but I think it usually does.
Don't seek happiness. If you seek it, you won't find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness. Happiness is ever elusive, but freedom from unhappiness is attainable now, by facing what is rather than making up stories about it.
I think same sex couples should be able to get married.
I did a lot of student acting when I was young.