A melody is not merely something you can hum.

A melody is not merely something you can hum.

To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.

The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer to that would be, "No."

So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.

If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.

Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.

You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.

The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?' My answer to that would be, 'No.'

The melody is generally what the piece is all about.

I wanted to build up a name for myself.

It is nerve-wracking watching my kids' games.

Steal a little and they'll put you in jail, steal a lot and they'll make you king.

Man was created to praise, reverence, and serve God our Lord and in this way to save his soul. The other things on Earth were created for man's use, to help him reach the end for which he was created.

I think that part of being a good journalist, part of being an awake member of the world you're in, is to view yourself as an outsider, and I always have, to some degree.

We can define the rules of police-citizen engagement, but everyday decisions will always be made by men and women in uniform, on the street, in the community, under extreme pressure, in a dangerous world where guns easily fall into the wrong hands.

If you believe, then you have already taken the first step towards your achievement.

I'm of the opinion that life doesn't always tie up neatly at the end of the episode.

You have to think outside the box! Can you imagine One Direction and Eminem?! That would be hilarious.

I don't ever want to become Bill Maher where I have to find some strong opinion on something just because it's in the news. That's the guy that comes off like you have to be angry every week about new topics and snotty about something. That's what I'm trying to avoid.

One child must never be set above another, even in casual conversation, not to mention in speeches that circle the globe.

Steve Jobs had very strong feelings about what makes a company great, what makes products great. He more or less chose Tim Cook to be in that role, in that position.

I wanted to dedicate myself completely to the things that matter to me and let everything else go, and I think that's a really rewarding thing.

The most interesting thing to me in chess are not the gambits. Or the moves. It's the mental toughness.

I'm good at many, many things, but the one thing I've never been good at is relationships.

I have a lot of respect for my fellow young actors. It takes a lot to push forward after being told no a million times, and that was what we all have to go through. So those who push deserve respect.

RFID is going to get its technical embedding time it needs as serious players are not going to get involved on a sufficient scale with something that might not work.

Less is more

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Everything I listen to is influential in some way.

Interest rate cuts have an effect in stimulating an economy by directly or indirectly making someone, somewhere, spend more than they otherwise would. That extra spending increases demand and ensures that we all carry on with work to do, without us having to slash our prices or our wrists.

The infrastructure we provide is the same in a remote town in Africa or New York or an archipelago in Sweden: we use the same system, and the chips inside the phone are the same.

I like to think that my finest hour is still ahead of me, so I can look forward rather than look backward.

Well, my view before was a Western view, and I certainly understand marriage equality and civil rights, equal rights for all, but having visited developing nations and some of the poorest nations in the world, I realize how deep it goes and how much work really needs to be done to create equality for all.