Any Asshole Can Write A Tone-row. It

Even Experimental Composers, Revolutionary Composers, Self-styled Radicals Are, In Writing Revolutionary Music, Recognizing The Music That Preceded Them Precisely By Trying To Avoid It.

To Be A Success As A Broadway Composer, You Must Be Jewish Or Gay. I'm Both.

Stillness Is Our Most Intense Mode Of Action. It Is In Our Moments Of Deep Quiet That Is Born Every Idea, Emotion, And Drive Which We Eventually Honor With The Name Of Action. We Reach Highest In Meditation, And Farthest In Prayer. In Stillness Every Human Being Is Great.

Inspiration Is Wonderful When It Happens, But The Writer Must Develop An Approach For The Rest Of The Time... The Wait Is Simply Too Long.

A Work Of Art Does Not Answer Questions, It Provokes Them; And Its Essential Meaning Is In The Tension Between The Contradictory Answers.