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"You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today."
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"If you are feeling something, then Shakespeare felt it and wrote about it - and wrote about it so eloquently."
"You can't plan for feelings. You have to accept that. Let it scare you. Trust that it'll be okay anyway."
"Feelings have the divine attracting power. Feelings are the only link between you and everything around you."
"To express to you in mere words, our personal feelings on this occasion you must know to be impossible, and particularly so for one who normally has to describe only things outside himself."
"It's a little like casting out hundreds of fishing lines into the audience. You start getting little bites, then more, then you hook a few, then more. Then you can start reeling them in and that's a loveliest feeling - the whole audience laughing with you."
"The dominant feeling of the battlefield is loneliness."
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"To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable."
"So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning."
"The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer to that would be, "No.""
"Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness."
"You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today."
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