If you would get exercise, go in search of the springs of life.

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.

Composers need words, but they do not necessarily need poetry. The Russian composer, Aleksandr Mossolov, who chose texts from newspaper small ads, had a good point to make. With revolutionary music, any text can be set to work.

In rising financial markets, the world is forever new. The bull or optimist has no eyes for past or present, but only for the future, where streams of revenue play in his imagination.

I have always enjoyed literature classes, and I took a fiction workshop for writing and analyzing at Curtis... I don't know if would do it professionally, but it's nice to have the balance with the music.

You have to have a certain amount of limitations, I think, to make art and to make something that can be alive on film. Money can get in the way of that.