Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.
I distrust anything that you don't hear.
Improvisation is terribly haphazard.
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.
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.
Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing.
As the time goes by, you change, your learn new things, your attitude is different. For the moment, I'm still enjoying ski racing so much that it would be difficult for me to think about ending my career.
A bargain is a bargain.
I grew up in Florida, where if you weren't comfortable dancing, you weren't going to get any girls.