Talent works, genius creates.
Perhaps only a Genius can truly understand Genius.
Music induces nightingales to sing, pug dogs to yelp.
When young, one learns his craftsmanship, may become a young master, and it is youth that is most auspicious for developing certain skills.
To compose is to remember music that has never been written.
My symphonies would have reached Opus 100 if I had but written them down... Sometimes I am so full of music, and so overflowing with melody, that I find it simply impossible to write down anything.