Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.

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• Gustav Mahler:

  If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.

• Stephen Sondheim:

  I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface.

• Oscar Levant:

  I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself.

• Frederic Chopin:

  As long as I have health and strength, I will gladly work all my days.

• Ennio Morricone:

  It had a very good arrangement by Herbie Hancock, but it used existing pieces.

• Igor Stravinsky:

  Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.

• Joseph Parry:

  Make new friends, but keep the old; Those are silver, these are gold.

• Richard Wagner:

  Joy is not in things; it is in us.

• Leonard Bernstein:

  The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energie

• John Cage:

  If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixtee