"There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life and living life."

"In 'thinking up' music I usually have some kind of a brass band with wings on it in back of my mind."

"Every great inspiration is but an experiment - though every experiment we know, is not a great inspiration."

"It is conceivable that what is unified form to the author or composer may of necessity be formless to his audience."

"For the sake of argument and illustration I will presume that certain articles of ordinary diet, however beneficial in youth, are prejudicial in advanced life, like beans to a horse, whose common ordinary food is hay and corn."

"I'm such an advocate for animal rights and environmental rights."

"When a child, my dreams rode on your wishes, I was your son, high on your horse, My mind a top whipped by the lashes Of your rhetoric, windy of course."

"I've loved musicals ever since I saw 'The Lion King' on Broadway."