A good composer is slowly discovered and a bad composer is slowly found out.

The greatest composer does not sit down to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working.

The higher the voice the smaller the intellect.

The finest singing, given a good voice to begin with, comes from the constant play of a fine mind upon the inner meaning of the music.

The great-at-anything do not set to work because they are inspired, but rather become inspired because they are working. They don't waste time waiting for inspiration.

Jazz is not a 'form' but a collection of tags and tricks.

I had no idea Stravinsky disliked Debussy so much as this.

Beethoven, Wagner, Bach, and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration.

You may help a lame dog over a stile but he is still a lame dog on the other side.

For my part, if I had the power I would insist on all oratorios being sung in the costume of the period - with a possible exception in the case of the Creation.

The good composer is slowly discovered the bad composer is slowly found out.

I found it hard to think of leaving my books. They had been my elevators out of the midden, and to whom could I entrust such close friends?

I'm recording freely, and if I make a song, I release it immediately, so I'm more likely to believe in one song at a time as opposed to albums.

When I was a kid, I used to look in the mirror and pretend I was Elvis.

I think I still get something from the original broadcaster but I'm certainly not aware of any Netflix van driving to my house and unloading a load of cash into my front yard.

The largest ambition has the least appearance of ambition when it meets with an absolute impossibility in compassing its object.

There was a rock in front of my hut, a tall, gray rock. By its looks it seemed to be well-disposed toward me.

An opinion which excites no opposition at all is not worth having!

In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption.

Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing.

I'm a sucker for fries. It's definitely one of my biggest vices. My biggest savory vice for sure.