Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
Composition is frozen improvisation.
All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God.