Good composers don't borrow, they steal

One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.

Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.

Good composers don't borrow, they steal

What I cannot follow are the manic-depressive fluctuations from total control to no control, from the serialization of all elements to chance.

To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.

Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.