There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life and living life.
There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life and living life.
Composing is like driving down a foggy road toward a house. Slowly you see more details of the house-the color of the slates and bricks, the shape of the windows. The notes are the bricks and the mortar of the house.
It is conceivable that what is unified form to the author or composer may of necessity be formless to his audience.
One thing I am certain of is that, if I have done anything good in music, it was, first, because of my father, and second, because of my wife.
The United States and Turkey are the only two countries that don’t have some kind of subsidy for the Arts. The whole culture in society has made certain films more acceptable. I turned down so many films in the ’60s and ’70s.
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.
You cannot set art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitality, reality, and substance.
The old idea of a composer suddenly having a terrific idea and sitting up all night to write it is nonsense. Nighttime is for sleeping.
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