“I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.”
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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.
Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the conductor we do not remember him in it.
The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.