Compose first, worry later.
Love is a mystery which, when solved, evaporates. The same holds for music.
If you read reviews of concerts, the word 'creative' comes up all the time. However, performers playing music usually aren't creative. Critics might say they are, but they're just playing another persons work. They didn't create it.
Art means to dare - and to have been right.
Bel canto is to opera what pole-vaulting is to ballet.
Music is the sole art which evokes nostalgia for the future.