I Don't Write Music For Sissy Ears.

If Idioms Are More To Be Born Than To Be Selected, Then The Things Of Life And Human Nature That A Man Has Grown Up With--(not That One Man's Experience Is Better Than Another's, But That It Is 'his.')--may Give Him Something Better In His Substance And Manner Than An Over-long Period Of Superimposed Idiomatic Education Which Quite Likely Doesn't Fit His Constitution. My Father Used To Say, 'if A Poet Knows More About A Horse Than He Does About Heaven, He Might Better Stick To The Horse, And Some Day The Horse May Carry Him Into Heaven'

It Is More Important To Keep The Horse Going Hard Than To Always Play The Exact Notes.

In 'thinking Up' Music I Usually Have Some Kind Of A Brass Band With Wings On It In Back Of My Mind.

I Don't Write Music For Sissy Ears.

Awards Are Merely The Badges Of Mediocrity.