There is still plenty of good music to be written in C major.
In Spring! In the creation of art it must be as it is in Spring!
I have never seen faces, but because I have looked people in the eye, only their gazes.
Rests always sound well.
Composing is a slowed-down improvisation; often one cannot write fast enough to keep up with the stream of ideas.
The principal function of form is to advance our understanding. It is the organization of a piece which helps the listener to keep the idea in mind, to follow its development, its growth, its elaboration, its fate.