If A Literary Man Puts

You May Feel Depressed, But It Can't Be So Depressing That You Can't Move. No, I Would Say That People Create In Moments When They Are Elated About Expressing Their Depression!

A Great Symphony Is A Man-made Mississippi Down Which We Irresistibly Flow From The Instant Of Our Leave-taking To A Long Forseen Destination.

To Stop The Flow Of Music Would Be Like The Stopping Of Time Itself, Incredible And Inconceivable.

Mozart In His Music Was Probably The Most Reasonable Of The World's Great Composers. It Is The Happy Balance Between Flight And Control, Between Sensibility And Self-discipline, Simplicity And Sophistication Of Style That Is His Particular Province... Mozart Tapped Once Again The Source From Which All Music Flows, Expressing Himself With A Spontaneity And Refinement And Breath-taking Rightness That Has Never Since Been Duplicated.

The Inspired Moment May Sometimes Be Described As A Kind Of Hallucinatory State Of Mind: One Half Of The Personality Emotes And Dictates While The Other Half Listens And Notates. The Half That Listens Has Better Look The Other Way, Had Better Simulate A Half Attention Only, For The Half That Dictates Is Easily Disgruntled And Avenges Itself For Too Close Inspection By Fading Entirely Away.