The duty of the words is to say just as much as the music has left unsaid and no more.

Art for art's sake has never flourished in England. We are often called inartistic because our art is unconscious. Our drama and poetry, like our laws and our …

Before going any further may we take it that the object of art is to obtain a partial revelation of that which is beyond human senses and human faculties - of …

The art of music above all the other arts is the expression of the soul of a nation.

With Moondance, I wrote the melody first. I played the melody on a soprano sax and I knew I had a song so I wrote lyrics to go with the melody. That's the way …

Basically, I write from a two person standpoint. First, I let the song take hold and I put down the idea as a raw emotional statement. Then I let it breathe an…

Instead of thinking in terms of chords, I think of voice-leading; that is, melody line and bass line, and where the bass line goes. If you do that, you'll have…