Which of my Jewish roots do I follow?
Any great art work … revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world - the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.
To be a success as a Broadway composer, you must be Jewish or gay. I'm both.
I hate you, Richard Wagner . . . but I hate you on my knees.
...we can all shut-up and go back to our caves.
Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors.