When Maurice touched a keyboard, it was like something from a movie, magical. He would always give you something from a movie, and you'd go, what did you just play... immediately inspirational writings, amazing. That's what we're going to miss.
I grew up idolizing Madeline Kahn and Lily Tomlin and Carol Burnett, Ruth Gordon, Rosalind Russell, Amy Irving, women who were stylish and real actresses who did real work and could not be replaced with anyone else. You cannot cast anyone else in Madeline Kahn's roles.
I am moving towards that zone where I don't want to be a replaceable name. This is my goal. I want to hear from the industry that, 'You are the only one who can do this. We will not go ahead with the project if you don't do this.' And I want to hear from the audience that it is worth watching a film that I have done.
The great thing about James Baldwin and his writing is that it's still fresh every time you pick it up. That's also the sad thing about his writing sometimes, too.
'Underrated.' That is the word that best describes Prince, the Guitarist. Why? Because his phenomenal guitar-playing was just one arrow in a quiver full of remarkable talents.
It's one of those records that will stand forever. I really can't imagine anyone touching it.
Iggy Pop has a voice that's somehow simultaneously self-mocking, wild, precise, amused, righteous, cool, contained and bold. I don't know how he does what he does.
We've gone overboard on every Queen album. But that's Queen.
There is no way one can remake 'Mughal-e-Azam.' What my grandfather did, we cannot even think of emulating. The film is a legend, and we should leave it at that.
They can sonically sound like me, but nobody's ever gonna be able to write songs like T-Pain. There's only one of those.
Writers always think their greatest work is just ahead of them.
Peter Jackson has the sort of imagination that no one else has.
Mozart is expressing something that is more than human.
I can't judge myself by 'God Only Knows.' No one writes songs as good as that.
Forty years later, people still swear they can hear his offstage scream.
I think Stevie Wonder could sing the phone book and manage to make me cry.
We were astonished by the beauty and refinement of the art displayed by the objects surpassing all we could have imagined - the impression was overwhelming.
How does Ronnie O'Sullivan play snooker the way he does? You can't explain it.
It's not an easy task to match Charan. He is really a good dancer, and he comes straight to the sets without rehearsals.
I am composing like a god, as if it simply had to be done as it has been done.
To be honest, I don't see anyone out there who plays the way I do.
None of my films are comparable to anybody else's. So many years after I made them, nobody's been able to copy them.
Some amazing records have this power to leave you with inspiration; you're left with the urge to write something. And some records are totally overwhelming, because they are so good, they burn the bridges behind them.
Only once in a thousand years or so do we get to hear a Mozart or see a Picasso or read a Shakespeare. Ali was one of them, and yet at his heart, he was still a kid from Louisville who ran with the gods and walked with the crippled and smiled at the foolishness of it all.
You learn from mistakes, but Shakespeare is one big non mistake isn't he? He just got everything right really.
