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I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself...
Let your mind alone, and see what happens.
Source: On writing; in Christian Science...
I thought of myself as a species of knight errant attacking dragons single-handedly and rescuing musical virtue in...
Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a...
Reviewing music or reviewing anything is a writing job. It's nice if you are experienced in the field you are writing...
I said to my friends that if I was going to starve, I might as well starve where the food is...
Musicians . . . own music because music owns them.
Source: Commencement address at...
I don't go around regretting things that don't happen.
Source: On infrequency with...
I seem to write an opera about every 20 years; if you live long enough you can write four operas. I finished my third...
I don't care what [other critics] say, I only hope to be played.
Source: On being...
You explain how it went, and as far as you can figure out how it got that way.
I never learned to verbalize an abstract musical concept. No thank you. The whole point of being a serious musician is...
I look at you and I write down what I hear.
Source: To Picasso, when asked how he...
Falsely conceived and rather clumsily executed . . . crooked folklore and halfway opera.
The description and explanation is the best part of music reviewing. There is such a thing, and you know it too, as a...