Every great inspiration is but an experiment.
Awards are merely the badges of mediocrity.
Everyone should have the opportunity of not being over-influenced.
All melodious poets shall be hoarse as street ballads, when once the penetrating keynote of nature and spirit is sounded-the earth-beat, sea-beat, heart-beat, which make the tune to which the sun rolls, and the globule of blood and the sap of the trees.
I don't write music for sissy ears.
If a composer has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances?