Compose first, worry later.
composition is notation of distortion of what composers think they've heard before. Masterpieces are marvelous misquotations.
The hardest of all the arts to speak of is music, because music has no meaning to speak of
Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced.
Nothing is a waste that makes a memory.
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.