Also something that you don't have to listen to from beginning to end - you can enter at any point and leave at any point.

I've noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it's far enough in the future.

What happens with notation is that it reduces things to a language which isn't necessarily appropriate to them. In the same way that words do, you get a much cruder version of what was actually intended.

Any constraint is part of the skeleton that you build the composition on - including your own incompetence.

The trouble begins with a design philosophy that equates 'more options' with 'greater freedom.'

Good teachers realise that the students are the antenna; they are sensing things that the teachers don't yet sense.

Cooking is a way of listening to the radio.