"The middle of the note is where the music is." (6/29)
"I think the misereres would be yellow; what color would the 'no' be?... Olive? Purple?" (7/22)
"It's as if heaven were a MENSA meeting and you have the most intellectual conversation...I hope I'm not there with my family." (7/26)
"You scratch off in your car real fast and the wheel goes 'bzzzz' and the gravel spins out-- we don't want to hear that in music." (7/13)
"It's like that baseball movie-- build it and it will come." (7/13)
"As a color we need it every now and then, like when we're dying." (7/13)
He said this when talking about what he was calling an organ arpeggio, but what is actually just a rolled chord: "It's like when you drink champagne and the foam goes up your nose." (7/8)
And then, maybe the most infuriating comment: "Haydn wouldn't have written it if he didn't believe it." (7/13) Wasn't Haydn hired to write sacred music? He didn't do it necessarily because he believed it, but because he was getting a paycheck.
