“If a composer has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances?”
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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.
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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.
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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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