If You're A Good Composer,

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

I Believe That From That Earth Emerges A Musical Poetry, Which Is By The Nature Of Its Sources Tonal. I Believe That These Sources Cause To Exist A Phonology Of Music, Which Evolves From The Universal Known As The Harmonic Series.

It Is Hard To Think Of Another Composer Who So Perfectly Marries Form And Passion.

When The Thunder Rumbles, Now The Age Of Gold Is Dead. When The Dreams We've Clung To Trying To Stay Young, Have Left Us Parched And Old Instead. When My Courage Crumbles, When I Feel Confused And Frail, When My Spirit Falters On Decaying Altars And My Illusions Fail -- I Go On Right Then. I Go On Again. I Go On To Say I Will Celebrate Another Day. I Go On. If Tomorrow Tumbles And Everything I Love Is Gone, I Will Face Regret All My Days, And Yet I Will Still Go On.

Success Is All Very Well As Long As You Don't Inhale.