Melodic invention is one of the surest signs of a divine gift.
If you think you're boring your audience, go slower not faster.
Behind me the branches of a wasted and sterile existence are cracking.
It is easier to achieve a desired result in short pieces.
If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.
In Bach, the vital cells of music are united as the world is in God.