Music Is One Of The Ways That

Beauty In Music Is Too Often Confused With Something That Lets The Ears Lie Back In An Easy Chair. Many Sounds That We Are Used To Do Not Bother Us, And For That Reason We Are Inclined To Call Them Beautiful. Frequently, When A New Or Unfamiliar Work Is Accepted As Beautiful On Its First Hearing, Its Fundamental Quality Is One That Tends To Put The Mind To Sleep.

If A Composer Has A Nice Wife And Some Nice Children, How Can He Let The Children Starve On His Dissonances?

Awards Are Merely The Badges Of Mediocrity.

Stand Up And Take Your Dissonance Like A Man.

One Thing I Am Certain Of Is That, If I Have Done Anything Good In Music, It Was, First, Because Of My Father, And Second, Because Of My Wife