Most Of The Forward Movements Of Life

The Possibilities Of Percussion Sounds, I Believe, Have Never Been Fully Realized

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'

For The Man Of Talent Affects To Call His Transgressions Of The Laws Of Sense Trivial And To Count Them Nothing Considerd With His Devotion To His Art.

Everyone Should Have The Opportunity Of Not Being Over-influenced.

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