Optimism requires confidence, and confidence is built on trust. And trust, as we know, flows in both directions.
But in the end, music is ultimately an aural art, pure and simple.
Improvisation is terribly haphazard.
The difference between the student and the born composer is he really hears the thing, and they have to stage it and manipulate it by technical equipment.
Of all the arts, music is really the most abstract.
Besides merely some pleasure that we get out of the combinations of pitches together and lines, I think that there is some satisfaction that we get in the fact of having this diffuse thing organized very concretely and put onto a frame and have it actually decided.
I'm really interested in writing a piece of music that will move you, that will really move you. That is really the only reason that I'm writing music.
Im not crazy, Im just a little unwell.
I don't see a big difference between painting and photography. Moreover, such distinctions mean nothing to me.
I wouldn’t want to be faster or greener than now if you were with me O you were the best of all my days!
When I began to play Frisbee, I would play with my friends and we used to do difficult things. We would stand in front of lines of trees that were parallel. We would spend hours throwing frisbees back and forth between these tight spots.