In 'thinking Up' Music I Usually Have

You Cannot Set Art Off In A Corner And Hope For It To Have Vitality, Reality, And Substance.

Music Is One Of The Ways That God Has Of Beating In On Man.

In Some Century To Come, When The School Children Will Whistle Popular Tunes In Quarter-tones--when The Diatonic Scale Will Be As Obsolete As The Pentatonic Is Now--perhaps Then These Borderland Experiences May Be Both Easily Expressed And Readily Recognized. But Maybe Music Was Not Intended To Satisfy The Curious Definiteness Of Man. Maybe It Is Better To Hope That Music May Always Be Transcendental Language In The Most Extravagant Sense

It Is Conceivable That What Is Unified Form To The Author Or Composer May Of Necessity Be Formless To His Audience.

Awards Are Merely The Badges Of Mediocrity.