I see the world through my eyes. It's sometimes a strange world.
Listening to the Fifth Symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams is like staring at a cow for 45 minutes.
If one were asked to name one musician who came closest to composing without human flaw, I suppose general consensus would choose Johann Sebastian Bach.
I hope my recordings of my own works won't inhibit other people's performances. The brutal fact is that one doesn't always get the exact tempo one wants, although one improves with experience.
The melody is generally what the piece is all about.
You may feel depressed, but it can't be so depressing that you can't move. No, I would say that people create in moments when they are elated about expressing their depression!
A melody is not merely something you can hum.
Every man, therefore, who expects justification by works, must see to it, not that he is better than other men, or that he is very exact and does many things, or that he fasts twice in the week, and gives tithes of all he possesses, but that he is sinless.
What is simplicity? Simplicity is the shortest path to a solution.
An honest man in politics shines more there than he would elsewhere.
We have to be careful that in throwing out the devil, we don't throw out the best part of ourselves.