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"Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second."
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"There are so few directors who are musical who appreciate music."
"I can see me continuing to make the best music I can, and let the chips fall where they may."
"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."
"I just really longed to do music that reflected me as an adult and music that I thought was for other adults."
"Anything I do has to be directly related to my music. If it isn't, I don't really see a point to it."
"So all of the music had reference, or is inspired by something of the dharma that I've come in contact with."
"A song has to become as much a part of you as a tailored suit."
"There's nothing to compare to live music, there just isn't anything."
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"You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel."
"I am not one of the great composers. All the great have produced enormously. There is everything in their work - the best and the worst, but there is always quantity. But I have written relatively little."
"For Debussy the musician and the man I have had profound admiration, but by nature I'm different from him. I think I have always personally followed a direction opposed to that of the symbolism of Debussy."
"We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art."
"My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to The Raven, is found by chance or intuition, that the composition moved towards perfection with the precision and inevitability of a mathematical equation."
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