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

The hardest of all the arts to speak of is music, because music has no meaning to speak of

Artists, by definition innocent, don't steal. But they do borrow without giving back.

To start writing about your life is, from one standpoint, to stop living it. You must avoid adventures today so as to make time for registering those of yesterday.

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.

Nothing is a waste that makes a memory.