Life without music is meaningless, music without life is academic.

To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.

Wine snobbery, of course, is part showmanship, part sophistication, part knowledge, and part bluff

From New Year's on the outlook brightens; good humor lost in a mood of failure returns. I resolve to stop complaining.

The second fiddle. I can get plenty of first violinists, but to find someone who can play the second fiddle with enthusiasm

It would be nice to hear someone accidentally whistle something of mine, somewhere, just once.

Even experimental composers, revolutionary composers, self-styled radicals are, in writing revolutionary music, recognizing the music that preceded them precisely by trying to avoid it.