It is all about technique. The great mistake of this century is to put inspiration and creativity first.
I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.
Music is such a problem in the time it takes.
People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English music, but that English music is becoming more like me.
Composing's not voluntary, you know. There's no choice, you're not free. You're landed with an idea and you have responsibility to that idea.
I'm not an architectural composer.
In the end it doesn't matter what you do.
All the earth, though it were full of kind hearts, is but a desolation and desert place to a mother when her only child is absent.
Tell me truly, I implore-- Is there-- is there balm in Gilead?--tell me--tell me, I implore!
I’m amorous but out of reach A still life drawing of a peach.
I try to be feminist in, like, I love myself and I don't need someone else's approval.