I Have Two Answers To Everything And

From New Year's On The Outlook Brightens; Good Humor Lost In A Mood Of Failure Returns. I Resolve To Stop Complaining.

Any Asshole Can Write A Tone-row. It Takes A Composer To Write A Tune.

Music Can Name The Unnameable And Communicate The Unknowable.

Even Experimental Composers, Revolutionary Composers, Self-styled Radicals Are, In Writing Revolutionary Music, Recognizing The Music That Preceded Them Precisely By Trying To Avoid It.

The Key To The Mystery Of A Great Artist Is That For Reasons Unknown, He Will Give Away His Energies And His Life Just To Make Sure That One Note Follows Another... And Leaves Us With The Feeling That Something Is Right In The World.