Music, of all the arts, stands in a special region, unlit by any star but its own, and utterly without meaning ... except its own.

Elvis is the greatest cultural force in the twentieth century. He introduced the beat to everything, music, language, clothes, it's a whole new social revolution - the 60's comes from it.

Music, of all the arts, stands in a special region, unlit by any star but its own, and utterly without meaning ... except its own.

Life without music is meaningless, music without life is academic.

I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer.

You can sit there, tense and worried, freezing the creative energies, or you can start writing something. It doesn't matter what. In five or ten minutes, the imagination will heat, the tightness will fade, and a certain spirit and rhythm will take over.

To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.