“I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.”
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I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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.
