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Music, being identical with heaven, isn't a thing of momentary thrills, or even hourly ones. It's a condition of eternity.

I've learned what 'classical' means. It means something that sings and dances through sheer joy of existence.

One of the advantages of being over forty is that one begins to learn the difference between knowing and realising.

Failure is the most important part of an artist's training, and one you cannot afford to do without.

Always ask for advice but never take it.

Music-making as a means of getting money is hell

There is no room in music for the second-rate - it might just as well be the nineteenth-rate.

Never compose anything unless the not composing of it becomes a positive nuisance to you.