It often happens that when a person possesses a particular ability to an extraordinary degree nature makes up for it by leaving him or her incompetent in every other department.

I think that in today's world by nature we are all self-centered. And that often leads to selfishness.

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

Nature is often hidden sometimes overcome seldom extinguished.

As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.

People often complain that music is too ambiguous that what they should think when they hear it is so unclear whereas everyone understands words. With me it is exactly the opposite and not only with regard to an entire speech but also with individual words.

Music is emotional and you may catch a musician in a very unemotional mood or you may not be in the same frame of mind as the musician. So a critic will often say a musician is slipping.

Music exalts each joy allays each grief expels diseases softens every pain subdues the rage of poison and the plague.

Every so often I feel I should graduate to classical music properly. But the truth is I'm more likely to listen to rock music.

With music you often don't have to translate it. It just affects you and you don't know why.

One often makes music to supplement one's world.

Life is like music it must be composed by ear feeling and instinct not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases though not often.

For I have learned to look on nature not as in the hour of thoughtless youth but hearing oftentimes the still sad music of humanity.

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it time runs out.

My heart which is so full to overflowing has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from.

Music has charms to sooth a savage breast to soften rocks or bend a knotted oak.

For me singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light out of the darkness.

I often begin movies with music in my head it's a very important dimension to me. Not just the music itself but how to use music in film: when and how and subtlety. I don't like to be too sweet in my stories and I like the abrasive clang the contrasting of sounds and cultures.

American movies are often very good at mining those great underlying myths that make films robustly travel across class age gender culture.

The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned out by the noise.

Class is often invisible in America in the movies and usually not the subject of the film.

Very often when I go in to meet for movies or pilots I'm put on videotape. I hate the notion that that tape is going to sit on a shelf and never get better.

Quite often - a lot of the work I had done had been extensively with women. Most especially in the theater but also quite often in the movies. That has its own delights and maybe pitfalls too.