I'm glad I won it because when I grew up the Pulitzer was the award that every composer wanted and I was like that too.

The French Revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Don't build on the past. There is no past.

The structural thinking I use in the concert hall is unnecessary to most film projects, and most film composers make better use of the enormous range of pop and other materials and techniques required of them than I probably would, faced with the same challenge.

Art is not only about angst.

I think it's good for the composer to teach because you always have new students and you have to begin at the beginning and make things clear.

I'm glad I won it because when I grew up the Pulitzer was the award that every composer wanted and I was like that too.

I have tremendous respect for film composers.

What I think of as style - and I've gotten to this over years of really thinking about it - is that style is the unconscious choices I make.

I find respect for a mediocre British composer, as opposed to a really good American, ridiculous because they automatically respect a composer if he's from England.

I think art can reflect tragedy.

I don't think that the Pulitzer should be given the way it is. I think the competition should be anonymous. I think completely different people would win it if the names were taken off because a lot of it is done on relationships and names.

You become a great composer when you win a Pulitzer. But I think that now it's a completely meaningless award.

Jazz is not the popular culture. Jazz is in the same position in our culture as classical music. A very small minority of people really love it.

Eighty percent of my pieces gravitate towards an A, as a tonal thing, not at the beginning, but somewhere in it.

I always conceive a piece as a different set of challenges.

The French Revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Dont build on the past. There is no past.

If you take a violin, you can make it sound 50 different ways. Not just pizzicato and played by the bow, but ponticello, and harmonics, and tremolos. If you take an oboe and play it, there's about one way you can make it sound: like an oboe.

I'm continuing to prepare very well because I have my responsibility and my (pride) as a man and an athlete.

Beauty is unbearable drives us to despair offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

I'd like to do a kind of 'Sunday Night At The Palladium'-style variety show on the BBC.

With all due respect to the people who made the motorcycle movies during the '60s, I felt the sophistication level could be a bit higher, and I felt I could raise the bar on that, too.

We link our future to the euro, to the euro zone, and to the European Union while being the nearest neighbor of the United Kingdom with, obviously, a common travel area and a very close working relationship with the U.K.

Just cause you cant see me dont mean Ive gone away.

If I'm tired of me, I'm sure the public is as well.

Some growths can be detected early, making for increased accuracy in diagnosis. Some can be cured and others controlled.

What is a scientist after all It is a curious man looking through a keyhole the keyhole of nature trying to know whats going on.

I was disappointed, not because we had lost the war but because our people had allowed it to go on for so many years, instead of heeding the few voices of protest against all that mass insanity and slaughter.

If someone pulls me down, I pull them down, as I don't feel I should live my life in the way other people want me to. If they have a problem with my films, I can rip off their films, be it comedy or their family dramas, which are low on content and have over-theatrical acting.

The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

Don't ever let anyone bring you down, define who you are or destroy your awesomness.

I had people in my life who didn't give up on me: my mother, my aunt, my science teacher. I had one-on-one speech therapy. I had a nanny who spent all day playing turn-taking games with me.

The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man's intelligence.

I never want to hurt no one to the point so they can't go back to their children.

A group of people get together and exist as an institution we call a company so they are able to accomplish something collectively that they could not accomplish separately they make a contribution to society a phrase which sounds trite but is fundamental.

Learn to invest in investments where you can achieve an honest, legal advantage over other investors. When it comes to investing, why play on a level field?

It is nobody's right to be waited on and nobody's fate to do the waiting.

I feel uncomfortable because I'm insecure about who I am.

So, we're saying, if we can give developers and builders incentives to cut down on the regulatory barriers that are faced in this country, then we might be able to address the needs of affordable housing.

Times were changing. Clothes were changing. Morals were changing. We went from romantic loves songs like I used to do to rock 'n roll. Now that has changed to rap. So, there's always a new generation with new music.

If you find a series of linear shapes in the same alignment as known archaeological features, and they match excavated examples, you still need to excavate to confirm, but you can be fairly sure that the imagery is accurate.

Honestly, I try to think about when I first got into wrestling, and I remember Wrestle Mania VI being the first time that I watched Wrestle Mania as it happened.