Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.
A lot of my income has been derived from voicing Disney and family programming.
Fun can happen on the interior. Nobody knows about it, but there are fireworks going on inside your spirit when you hear a great orchestra playing great music.
The simple act of sitting down and playing something enormously complex and spiritually uplifting on a harpsichord just bores kids to tears. There's no sizzle, there's no grab. But it's the great lesson of serious music, that it invites you to listen, rather than demands that you listen.
The ebulliently sharp mind of 'White Christmas' director Walter Bobbie made me tremble and strive in the same breath. The deceptively 'simple' dialogue of David Ives, asking every actor to just. say. it. Float it on the breeze; it doesn't need 'explanation,' just energy and truth.
Very often, I don't make it through moments of recording because it is genuinely funny and absolutely ridiculous that a 60-year-old grown man is making these noises.
High school music teachers... nobody makes a living off it.
If it's right and true, it's listened to and accommodated.
I am certainly not a mainstream religious man.
A lot affects the outcome. It boils down to scheduling and the commitment of the network.
People are nice enough, but you can hear the giant tick of the second hand. People are so harried.
In television you go in with this operating system that it is a crapshoot.
My father, who died a few years ago, was a good, simple, very honest man. His faith and affection for his family was just unassailable, without question.
I'd forgotten I'd done the anime called Spirited Away, the English version of a Japanese film.
I will never master this craft. Orchestras are very, very forthcoming with me.
Because I don't take money, I'll go anywhere and do a benefit concert with almost any orchestra.
I love pulling people into concert halls who might not otherwise go and getting their ears tuned.
Something happens to us all when we experience something as a unit that doesn't occur when we're on our couches or holding our little portable DVD players.
Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to them.
What we have to get clear to kids is that when you offer your stillness and open yourself to the experience of music, it pays you back more than you give.
