Success Is All Very Well As Long

The Key To The Mystery Of A Great Artist Is That For Reasons Unknown, He Will Give Away His Energies And His Life Just To Make Sure That One Note Follows Another... And Leaves Us With The Feeling That Something Is Right In The World.

To Be A Success As A Broadway Composer, You Must Be Jewish Or Gay. I'm Both.

A Work Of Art Does Not Answer Questions, It Provokes Them; And Its Essential Meaning Is In The Tension Between The Contradictory Answers.

I Believe That From That Earth Emerges A Musical Poetry, Which Is By The Nature Of Its Sources Tonal. I Believe That These Sources Cause To Exist A Phonology Of Music, Which Evolves From The Universal Known As The Harmonic Series.

Inspiration Is Wonderful When It Happens, But The Writer Must Develop An Approach For The Rest Of The Time... The Wait Is Simply Too Long.