"Here is another miserable mental image I will have to catalog and make room for."

“Blue skies Smiling at me Nothing but blue skies Do I see Bluebirds Singing a song Nothing but bluebirds All day long”

“Walking in high heels should be made an Olympic sport.”

“I'm a project guy, but when my list of things to do gets too long or involved, it can stress me out to the point of catatonia. So I focus on the small stuff first and keep the larger picture as motivation - but not so close that it overwhelms.”

“Why compose works that have to be re-created every time they are performed? Because definitive, once-and-for-all developments seem no longer appropriate to musical thought as it is today, or to the actual state that we have reached in the evolution of musical technique, which is increasingly concerned with the investigation of a relative world, a permanent 'discovering' rather like the state of 'permanent revolution'.”

Source : Pierre Boulez, Martin Cooper (1990). “Orientations: Collected Writings”, p.143, Harvard University Press

“Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.”

“Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.”

Source : Hermann Hesse (1980). “Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays”

“You know you must be doing something right if old people like you.”

“I think Hollywood's gotten more reactionary and conservative over the years, because there's no longer art in Hollywood. Art suffers in Hollywood.”