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These seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with a thousand things better than words.

I would just like to say that opera is no longer about fat people in breastplates shattering wine glasses.

The Beatles saved the world from boredom.

Happy songs are very difficult to write. How many truly great upbeat songs are there?

What the Beatles did was something incredible, it was more than what a band could do. We have to give them respect.

I’ve broken my nose, I’ve broken ribs. You name it. In fact, we just got back from South America, and I fell over a monitor speaker on the stage and almost ended up in the front row of the audience. I managed to sprain my wrist on that one but luckily nothing was broken.

My son – and what’s a song? A thing begot within a pair of minutes, thereabout, a lump bred up in darkness.

I like working solo and it was a lot of fun joking around with the audience, saying things. I’m only just learning how to do certain things.

My first record came out in 1961 and then I had one come out in 1962 and then I had two that came out in 1964.

My best film composing experience was with Elia Kazan.