Life without music is unthinkable.

Life without music is unthinkable.

In the olden days, everybody sang. You were expected to sing as well as talk. It was a mark of the cultured man to sing.

You can sit there, tense and worried, freezing the creative energies, or you can start writing something. It doesn't matter what. In five or ten minutes, the imagination will heat, the tightness will fade, and a certain spirit and rhythm will take over.

Success is all very well as long as you don't inhale.

It is hard to think of another composer who so perfectly marries form and passion.

I believe that man's noblest endowment is his capacity to change.