It is more important to keep the horse going hard than to always play the exact notes.

The possibilities of percussion sounds, I believe, have never been fully realized

Expression, to a great extent, is a matter of terms, and terms are anyone's. The meaning of 'God' may have a billion interpretations if there be that many souls in the world

Please don't try to make things nice! All the wrong notes are right. Just copy as I have -- I want it that way.

If idioms are more to be born than to be selected, then the things of life and human nature that a man has grown up with--(not that one man's experience is better than another's, but that it is 'his.')--may give him something better in his substance and manner than an over-long period of superimposed idiomatic education which quite likely doesn't fit his constitution. My father used to say, 'If a poet knows more about a horse than he does about heaven, he might better stick to the horse, and some day the horse may carry him into heaven'

It is more important to keep the horse going hard than to always play the exact notes.

The fabric of existence weaves itself whole.