The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting any more than it has any reason for ending.
I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know...
Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music....
Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that...
The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to...
I haven't understood a bar of music in my life but I have felt it.
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes...
A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy...
Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of...
I find that classical music helps put me in a place that is very calming and...
One time I introduced my orchestra as the Shampoo Music Makers instead of the...
I grew up with classical music when I was a ballet dancer. Now when I have to...
If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed I agree with you.
The William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh... was the place where Champagne Music...
I didn't really see the British punk movement if that's what it was as...
One and the same thing can at the same time be good bad and indifferent...
Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I...