In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?

I wonder if memory is true, and I know that it cannot be, but that one lives by memory nevertheless and not by truth.

I am an inventor of music.

When I discovered that I had been made custodian of this gift, in my earliest childhood, I pledged myself to God to be worthy of it, but I have received uncovenanted mercies all my life. The custodian has too often kept faith on his all-too-worldly terms.

I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt like de Kooning, who was asked to comment on a certain abstract painting, and answered in the negative. He was then told it was the work of a celebrated monkey. 'That's different. For a monkey, it's terrific'.

To continue in one path is to go backward.

Look for the music on all things, and life will be a symphony of joy. My music is best understood by children and animals.