Intelligence is silence, truth is being invisible. But what a racket I make in declaring this.
Music is the sole art which evokes nostalgia for the future.
Artists, by definition innocent, don't steal. But they do borrow without giving back.
Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced.
It's not evil that's ruining the earth, but mediocrity. The crime is not that Nero played while Rome burned, but that he played badly.
composition is notation of distortion of what composers think they've heard before. Masterpieces are marvelous misquotations.