There's a higher place that I have no illusions about reaching. There's a sophistication and aesthetic about composers who only write only for the music's sake.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I run around so much that I finally reasoned that composing is the one musical endeavour which you can do anywhere, anytime.
I think there's a time as a writer when you want to see the best things in life, and you go out wherever you go with your dreams as a writer or a composer.
I'm not musically inclined. It blows my mind that people can write music. I don't have that talent; I look up to the people that do.
What inspires me is not so much the music as the opportunity to interact with composers. I think that has driven everything I've done.
Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.
I never really thought about my music being universal. When I set out to write, it was just a feeling that felt good to me. I never thought about being able to reach everybody.
If a composer is to reach his audience emotionally - and surely that's what theatre music is all about - he must reach the people through sounds they can relate to.
Writing music is not so much inspiration as hard work.
There are wonderful composers and librettists out there. It's the lack of creative producers that is troubling.
Composers, like authors, have a lot in common. Our main goal is to connect with the listener emotionally.