Clean energy is good for the environment, good for national security, and good for thousands of Americans who desire a rewarding career.
Of all the arts, music is really the most abstract.
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.
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.
Caballine likes me to be masterful. She calls me her stallion.
There is an important sense in which government is distinctive from administration. One is perpetual, the other is temporary and changeable. A man may be loyal to his government and yet oppose the particular principles and methods of administration.
The thing that defines a species is that all members have the same addressing system for their DNA.
I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten and have done my share of eating too.