There is still plenty of good music to be written in C major.

My music is not modern, it is merely badly played

Lucidity is the first purpose of color in music.

If music is frozen architecture, then the potpourri is frozen coffee-table gossip... Potpourri is the art of adding apples to pears.

There is still plenty of good music to be written in C major.

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.