Success Is All Very Well As Long

Success Is All Very Well As Long As You Don't Inhale.

Any Great Art Work … Revives And Readapts Time And Space, And The Measure Of Its Success Is The Extent To Which It Makes You An Inhabitant Of That World - The Extent To Which It Invites You In And Lets You Breathe Its Strange, Special Air.

The Rhapsody Is Not A Composition At All. It's A String Of Separate Paragraphs Stuck Together - With A Thin Paste Of Flour And Water... I Don't Think There Has Been Such An Inspired Melodist On This Earth Since Tchaikovsky... But If You Want To Speak Of A Composer, That's Another Matter.

Wine Snobbery, Of Course, Is Part Showmanship, Part Sophistication, Part Knowledge, And Part Bluff

Even Experimental Composers, Revolutionary Composers, Self-styled Radicals Are, In Writing Revolutionary Music, Recognizing The Music That Preceded Them Precisely By Trying To Avoid It.