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In ‘thinking up’ music I usually have some kind of a brass band with wings on it in back of my mind.

Profession : Composer

But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense.

Profession : Composer

Music is a way to express what words can’t say.

Profession : Composer

Though everything else may appear shallow and repulsive, even the smallest task in music is so absorbing, and carries us so far away from town, country, earth, and all worldly things, that it is truly a blessed gift of God.

Profession : Composer

If you want to sing out, sing out.

Profession : Composer

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

Profession : Composer

Music is the space between the notes.

Profession : Composer

Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.

Profession : Composer

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.

Profession : Composer

A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something in nature seems to reveal all consciousness, cannot be explained at noon. Yet it is part of the day’s unity.

Profession : Composer