As I have said before, I had no illusions about my performing ability. But I did not know that my despair was brought about not because I had no talent but because I did not know how to develop it.
We are torn out of our own existence and set down in the midst of the holy history of God on earth. There God dealt with us, and there he still deals with us, our needs and our sins, in judgment and grace.
The neurologist had dismissed her case after a single visit, handing out an easy nostrum by telling her father that if she continued to write poetry, she would be all right.
It was just so in the American Revolution, in 1776, the first delicacy the men threw overboard in Boston harbor was the tea, woman's favorite beverage. The tobacco and whiskey, though heavily taxed, they clung to with the tenacity of the devil-fish.
I consider everything I compose a gift.
I don't like to box myself in when I'm composing.
The present day composer refuses to die.
I have tremendous respect for film composers.
To judge a composer's work, one must consider it as a whole.
I played classical as a kid.
My best film composing experience was with Elia Kazan.
This book, conceived in sorrow, composed in grief, and constructed at the brink of despair, contains my mind's best thoughts, and my soul's triumph over the powers of darkness.
I always begin to compose the melody first.
I think of myself as a film composer.
People compose poetry, novels, sitcoms - for love.
I've always been a composer dependent on texts.
In Hollywood, the rainbow hits the ground for composers.
I am an interpreter of music rather than a composer of it.
Classicism is health, romanticisim is sickness.
Parineeta is a classic love story.
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