The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.
From Igor Stravinsky
I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.
What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.
The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament.
Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.
Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the conductor; we do not remember him in it.
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
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