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There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.

Composers today get a TV script on Friday and have to record on Tuesday. It’s just dreadful to impose on gifted talent and expect decent music under these conditions.

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That’s why I call it the most social of the various art forms.

I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!