The only nonpartisan people are those who are dead.
Remember that I wrote a pavane for a dead princess, and not a dead pavane for a princess!
The only love affair I have ever had was with music.
Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second.
I did my work slowly, drop by drop. I tore it out of me by pieces.
We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art
I do not ask for my music to be interpreted, but only for it to be played.
You know, the Constitution - there's nothing like it. But it doesn't necessarily give us the right to commit suicide as a country, OK?. . . We're not gonna allow the people to come into our country. . . . And if people want to come in, there's gonna be extreme vetting.
I just know that there are a lot of people out there who are younger than I am, and I wish to be a role model for them. If they have a dream, I want to help them keep that motivation high, so that they can realize their dream. I want to show people that they CAN have fun in life.
There are, of course, inherent tendencies to repetition in music itself. Our poetry, our ballads, our songs are full of repetition; nursery rhymes and the little chants and songs we use to teach young children have choruses and refrains. We are attracted to repetition, even as adults; we want the stimulus and the reward again and again, and in music we get it. Perhaps, therefore, we should not be surprised, should not complain if the balance sometimes shifts too far and our musical sensitivity becomes a vulnerability.
Swimming is probably my main conditioning. It gives you a full-body workout. It builds endurance, builds your lungs strong, I mean you name it. And I like that the older you get, you try to find different ways to train besides just pounding and running every day.