'Composers are not human; They can live on diminished sevenths, and be contented with a pianoforte for a wife, and a string quartette for a family.'

'A man's own self is the last person to believe in him, and is harder to cheat than the rest of the world.'

'Geniuses are horrid, intolerant, easily offended, sleeplessly self-conscious men, who expect their wives to be angels with no further business in life than to…

'I hate singers, a miserable crew who think that music exists only in their own throats.'

If you're listening to this song You may think the chords are going wrong But they're not We just wrote it like that

Any attempt to codify musical reality into a kind of imitation grammar (I refer mainly to the efforts associated with the Twelve-Tone System) is a brand of fet…

The composer makes plans, music laughs.