I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.