home / about this site / this series / contents           Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail. –Jean Cocteau		larger
To see itself through, music must have an idea or magic. The best has both. Music with neither dies young, though sometimes rich. –Ned Rorem To write it, it took three months; to conceive it -- three minutes; to collect the data in it -- all my life. –F. Scott Fitzgerald Alice came to a fork in the road. 'Which road do I take?' she asked. 'Where do you want to go?', responded the Cheshire cat. 'I don't know.' Alice answered. 'Then,' said the cat, 'it doesn't matter.' –Lewis Carroll Tones that sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes. –Ludwig van Beethoven
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