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

I believe that man's noblest endowment is his capacity to change.

To be a success as a Broadway composer, you must be Jewish or gay. I'm both.

Conducting is like making love to a hundred people at the same time.

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

I have two answers to everything and one answer to nothing.

Even experimental composers, revolutionary composers, self-styled radicals are, in writing revolutionary music, recognizing the music that preceded them precisely by trying to avoid it.