In music the present is extended.

Compose first, worry later.

Art means to dare - and to have been right.

The same piece of music alters at each hearing. But oh, the need to repeat and repeat and repeat unchanged the sexual experience.

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.

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.