A Melody Is Not Merely Something You

You Compose Because You Want To Somehow Summarize In Some Permanent Form Your Most Basic Feelings About Being Alive, To Set Down Some Sort Of Permanent Statement About The Way It Feels To Live Now, Today.

The Greatest Moments Of The Human Spirit May Be Deduced From The Greatest Moments In Music.

Composers Tend To Assume That Everyone Loves Music. Surprisingly Enough, Everyone Doesn’t.

If A Literary Man Puts Together Two Words About Music, One Of Them Will Be Wrong.

The Main Thing Is To Be Satisfied With Your Work Yourself. It's Useless To Have An Audience Happy If You Are Not Happy.