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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."
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"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."
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"If a composer has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances?"
"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."
"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."
"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."
"It is conceivable that what is unified form to the author or composer may of necessity be formless to his audience."
"Expression, to a great extent, is a matter of terms, and terms are anyone's. The meaning of 'God' may have a billion interpretations if there be that many souls in the world."
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