Art Is Sort Of An Experimental Station

When I Went To The Analyst For A Kind Of Preliminary Meeting, He Said, 'i'll Be Able To Fix You So That You'll Write Much More Music Than You Do Now.' I Said, 'good Heavens! I Already Write Too Much, It Seems To Me.' That Promise Of His Put Me Off.

No One Can Have An Idea Once He Starts Really Listening.

One Need Not Fear For The Future Of Music.

Discord Occasions A Momentary Distress To The Ear, Which Remains Unsatisfied, And Even Uneasy, Until It Hears Something Better. I Am Convinced...that Provided The Ear Be At Length Made Amends, There Are Few Dissonances Too Strong For It. Disharmony, To Paraphrase Bergson's Statement About Disorder, Is Simply A Harmony To Which Many Are Unaccustomed.

A Mind That Is Interested In Changing...is Interested Precisely In The Things That Are At Extremes. I'm Certainly Like That. Unless We Go To Extremes, We Won't Get Anywhere.