We can neither put back the clock nor slow down our forward speed, and as we are already flying pilotless, on instrument controls, it is even too late to ask where we are going.

Good composers don't borrow, they steal

It is my conviction that the public always shows itself more honest in its spontaneity than do those who officially set themselves up as judges of works of art.

What force is more potent than love?

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.

Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.