Great Music Does Not Just Make Me

Why Do We Pigeonhole And Label An Artist? It Is A Sure Way Of Missing The Important, The Contradictory, The Things That Make Him Or Her Unique.

Personality Is Essential. It Is In Every Work Of Art. When Someone Walks On Stage For A Performance And Has Charisma, Everyone Is Convinced That He Has Personality. I Find That Charisma Is Merely A Form Of Showmanship. Movie Stars Usually Have It. A Politician Has To Have It.

Mozart Wrote So Many Works In His Thirty-five Years That It Would Take A Lifetime Just To Write Out The Notes. We Literally Do Not Know How He Did It.

The Best Way To Investigate The Elusive Phenomenon Called The Creative Process May Well Be To Target All The Misconceptions, To Explain What The Creative Process Is Not.

There Is Another Interesting Paradox Here: By Immersing Ourselves In What We Love, We Find Ourselves. We Do Not Lose Ourselves. One Does Not Lose One's Identity By Falling In Love.