If music could be translated into human speech, it would no longer need to exist.
Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced.
Don't be too dismissive of children. While it's true that few children are artists, all artists are children.
Anyone can be gay - it's no accomplishment - but only I can be me.
Art's the biggest vanity: the assumption that one's view of peace or fright or beauty is permanently communicable.
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.