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

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

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

You may feel depressed, but it can't be so depressing that you can't move. No, I would say that people create in moments when they are elated about expressing their depression!

The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking "Is there a meaning to music?" My answer would be, "Yes", And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer to that would be "No."

The inspired moment may sometimes be described as a kind of hallucinatory state of mind: one half of the personality emotes and dictates while the other half listens and notates. The half that listens has better look the other way, had better simulate a half attention only, for the half that dictates is easily disgruntled and avenges itself for too close inspection by fading entirely away.

The main thing is to be satisfied with your work yourself. It's useless to have an audience happy if you are not happy.