Someone once asked me... whether I waited for inspiration. My answer was: "Every day!"

Composers tend to assume that everyone loves music. Surprisingly enough, everyone doesn’t.

I adore extravagance but I abhor waste.

If one were asked to name one musician who came closest to composing without human flaw, I suppose general consensus would choose Johann Sebastian Bach.

So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.

A great symphony is a man-made Mississippi down which we irresistibly flow from the instant of our leave-taking to a long forseen destination.

If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.