The only form of music is melody, without melody music is not feasible, and music and melody are quite inseparable.
For a country boy, poor as I was, whose constant worry was to be able to have enough to eat, the Army guaranteed one's survival.
Possibly because I've lived so much of my life in difficult circumstances, I think I have a more profound understanding of life.
I am also well aware that literature only has a minimal influence on political disputes or economic crises in the world, but its significance to human beings is ancient.
Where there's life, death is inevitable. Dying's easy; it's living that's hard. The harder it gets, the stronger the will to live. And the greater the fear of death, the greater the struggle to keep on living.
Loneliness and hunger were my fortunes of creation.
When someone forces me to do something I don't do it.
Don't fall into the trap of having to have everything perfect to write or wait until the mood strikes you. If you want it as a job, treat it like a job, and just as you don't go to work only when you feel like it, you have to condition yourself to sit and write even when the ideas don't flow.
With any level of success you get some non-musical things that come along - money, ego - and it's easy to lose your perspective and get off doing what you did to get there.
Go isn't functional, it's pragmatical. Why pure paradigms like FP or OOP are always a must? (sigh)
Corporations have neither bodies to be punished, nor souls to be condemned, they therefore do as they like.