Ah, that tastes nice. Thank you.

We cling nervously to the melody, but we don't handle it freely, we don't really make anything new out of it, we merely overload it.

It is not hard to compose, but what is fabulously hard is to leave the superfluous notes under the table.

Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven varies the melody, harmony and rhythms so beautifully.

Study Bach. There you will find everything.

If we cannot write with the beauty of Mozart, let us at least try to write with his purity.

Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.