"Write the way you talk. Naturally."

“No matter how many scores I've written, the next project will hopefully be completely different. As hard as it is, I'm always trying to stay fresh, not repeat myself, and come up with original musical ideas and ways of scoring.”

Source : "A Conversation With Prolific Music Composer & Producer John Keltonic". Interview with Norm Goldman, www.bookpleasures.com. July 21, 2015.

“There are no more geniuses, only critics.”

Source : Arnold Schoenberg, Leonard Stein (1975). “Style and Idea: Selected Writings of Arnold Schoenberg”, p.203, Univ of California Press

“I don't think about it, 'Wow! I'm the quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys.' For me, this is my job. This is what I've been preparing to do. And I really want to win badly.”

“I never have the feeling that I actually know what I'm doing or anything that I'm writing is any good.”

“The rest of the world is growing so quickly, they'll be looking for anything to buy.”

“I felt an absolutely indescribable sense of menace. It was hell on earth to be there [in the presence of the entities], and yet I couldn't move, couldn't cry out, couldn't get away. I'd lay as still as death, suffering inner agonies. Whatever was there seemed so monstrously ugly, so filthy and dark and sinister. Of course they were demons. They had to be. And they were here and I couldn't get away.”

“Come, blessed barrier between day and day, Dear mother of fresh thoughts and joyous health!”

“I've experienced tons of failure. I've been making music for 30 years, and I'd say failure and success have happened in equal measure.”