“Work does not interrupt inspiration. Work is what inspiration looks like from the inside.” “Every great piece of music is a set of problems solved so well that the listener never no…” “A melody that costs you nothing is worth exactly that.” “The audience hears the finished piece. The composer lived inside every wrong version of i…” “Originality is mostly just stubbornness applied to a very small idea.” “You do not compose in spite of your rules. You think through them, the way water thinks t…” “Silence before a note is not empty. It is the whole argument, waiting to be made.” “The form you choose is not your cage. It is your spine.” “Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remo…” William Shakespeare “You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but bec…” Oscar Wilde “Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Bei…” Anton Chekhov “I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.” Louisa May Alcott