composition is notation of distortion of what composers think they've heard before. Masterpieces are marvelous misquotations.

The beautiful are shyer than the ugly, for they move in a world that does not ask for beauty.

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

Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin.

An artist doesn't necessarily have deeper feelings than other people, but he can express these feelings. He is like everyone else-only more so! He speaks with a Formal Sigh.

composition is notation of distortion of what composers think they've heard before. Masterpieces are marvelous misquotations.

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