“I’m nothing but a conduit. The music goes though my ears, my fingers… Composer is a god. Composer creates music. We’re performers. We’re just passing it on.”

“The fact that certain composers have been able to create first-class music within the medium of film proves that film music can be as good as the composer is gifted.”

“I like composing music, but I love being with my family.”

“Yes, in the sense that the negative is like the composer’s score. Then, using that musical analogy, the print is the performance.”

“Music for me is life, I stay in my studio until ten or eleven at night and I record every day. Not for money or for albums - I just compose music.”

“Yes, in the sense that the negative is like the composer’s score. Then, using that musical analogy, the print is the performance. (Paraphrased as "Film is the score and the print is the performance.")”

“The song we’re composing already exists in potential. Our work is to find it.”

“If they cut off both hands, I will compose music anyway holding the pen in my teeth.”

“Communists love to make films about composers, because composers compose music and don't talk subversive things.”

“Just as my fingers on these keys Make music, so the self-same sounds On my spirit make a music, too. Music is feeling, then, not sound”