Minor artists borrow, great ones steal.

Compose first, worry later.

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

The art of translation lies less in knowing the other language than in knowing your own.

I don't go to concerts much. I've heard everything. When I do go to movies, I walk out half the time. As for literature, I've read everything.

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.

Don't be too dismissive of children. While it's true that few children are artists, all artists are children.