I'm off everything apart from the fags and the coffee. I don't know if it's worked. It works up until you take your first drink.
Irving Berlin has no place in American music -- he is American music.
Musical numbers should carry the action of the play and should be representative of the personalities of the characters who sing them.
The fact that the theatregoing public likes my music is no credit to me. There are many other composers who write better music that the public doesn't like.
Irving Berlin has no place in American music. He is American music. Emotionally, he honestly absorbs the vibrations emanating from the people, manners and life of his time and, in turn, gives these impressions back to the world -- simplified, clarified and glorified.
Cartoonist Walt Disney has made the twentieth century's only important contribution to music. Disney has made use of music as language.
Go on being uncommercial. There's a lot of money in it.
Every light has its shadow, and every shadow hath a succeeding morning.
We cannot arrive at the perfect possession of God in this life, and that is why we are travelling and in darkness. But we already possess Him by grace, and therefore in that sense we have arrived and are dwelling in the light. But oh! How far have I to go to find You in Whom I have already arrived!
it isn't good tactics to ask for something that you know will be refused.
With every record, there's something you realize about it after the process is done. And you know that's almost always the case.