Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced.

Why, after all, must everyone like music? That they are missing something is just the lover's opinion.

Anyone can be gay - it's no accomplishment - but only I can be me.

If a composer could state in words what being a composer means, he would no longer need to be a composer.

As a lifelong pacifist, Quaker, and a gay man, I despair that gays and lesbians are expending energy trying to get into the military when they should be using that same energy getting rid of the military completely.

Love is a mystery which, when solved, evaporates. The same holds for music.

Nothing is a waste that makes a memory.