All cultures have these feelings about non-functional areas of activity. And the more time people have on their hands, the more they commit it to those areas.

Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.

If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.

Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.

I don't live in the past at all; I'm always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.

Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.

The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.