A Melody Is Not Merely Something You

Composers Tend To Assume That Everyone Loves Music. Surprisingly Enough, Everyone Doesn’t.

There Is Something About Music That Keeps Its Distance Even At The Moment That It Engulfs Us. It Is At The Same Time Outside And Away From Us And Inside And Part Of Us. In One Sense It Dwarfs Us, And In Another We Master It. We Are Led On And On, And Yet In Some Strange Way We Never Lose Control.

The Greatest Moments Of The Human Spirit May Be Deduced From The Greatest Moments In Music.

Someone Once Asked Me... Whether I Waited For Inspiration. My Answer Was: "every Day!"

You Compose Because You Want To Somehow Summarize In Some Permanent Form Your Most Basic Feelings About Being Alive, To Set Down Some Sort Of Permanent Statement About The Way It Feels To Live Now, Today.