If You're A Good Composer, You Steal

To Be A Success As A Broadway Composer, You Must Be Jewish Or Gay. I'm Both.

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.

I Think It Is Time We Learned The Lesson Of Our Century: That The Progress Of The Human Spirit Must Keep Pace With Technological And Scientific Progress, Or That Spirit Will Die. It Is Incumbent On Our Educators To Remember This; And Music Is At The Top Of The Spiritual Must List. When The Study Of The Arts Leads To The Adoration Of The Formula (heaven Forbid), We Shall Be Lost. But As Long As We Insist On Maintaining Artistic Vitality, We Are Able To Hope In Man

It Is The Artists Of The World, The Feelers And The Thinkers Who Will Ultimately Save Us; Who Can Articulate, Educate, Defy, Insist, Sing And Shout The Big Dreams.

Life Without Music Is Unthinkable. Life Without Music Is Academic. That Is Why My Contact With Music Is A Total Embrace.