You Cannot Set Art Off

You Cannot Set Art Off In A Corner And Hope For It To Have Vitality, Reality, And Substance.

Please Don't Try To Make Things Nice! All The Wrong Notes Are Right. Just Copy As I Have -- I Want It That Way.

It Is Conceivable That What Is Unified Form To The Author Or Composer May Of Necessity Be Formless To His Audience.

In 'thinking Up' Music I Usually Have Some Kind Of A Brass Band With Wings On It In Back Of My Mind.

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.