In music the present is extended.

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

Compose first, worry later.

Intelligence is silence, truth is being invisible. But what a racket I make in declaring this.

Greatness is not the effect of which inspiration is the cause. We are all inspired, but we are all not great.

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.

Music is the sole art which evokes nostalgia for the future.