Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.

When you play the 12-string guitar, you spend half your life tuning the instrument and the other half playing it out of tune.

Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.

I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God.

It's like fine-tuning a car. When you want the car to go a little faster, you tune it up so it revs a little higher. We just have to get everybody on the same page (against Air Force). If one person breaks down, then those guys are out the gate.

The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.