I have nothing to say, and I am saying it.
Don't try to create and analyze at the same time. They're different processes.
When you make music you are acting as a philosopher. You can either do that consciously or you can do it unconsciously, but you're doing it.
The material of music is sound and silence. Integrating these is composing.
...we make our lives by what we love.
When we separate music from life we get is art.