Art means to dare - and to have been right.

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.

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

The Great don't innovate, they fertilize seeds planted by lackeys, they leave to others the inhaling of the flowers whose roots they've manured. A deceptive memory may be the key to their originality.

Compose first, worry later.

Why, after all, must everyone like music? That they are missing something is just the lover's opinion.

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