Quotations
- It is difficult for me to compose; the process is almost excruciating and painful, and the work very rarely goes well. But the quality of music, insofar as I may judge, does not depend on this. Now and then music which is easily written is more effective but it is sometimes also more superficial.
- For me, composition generally means sinking down into myself, contact with beauty and communication with the non material world.
- Composers - although by no means all of them - have a great deal in common with priests and gardeners.
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“A book that furnishes no quotations is, me judice, no book—it is a plaything.”
—Thomas Love Peacock (1785–1866)
“Reading any collection of a man’s quotations is like eating the ingredients that go into a stew instead of cooking them together in the pot. You eat all the carrots, then all the potatoes, then the meat. You won’t go away hungry, but it’s not quite satisfying. Only a biography, or autobiography, gives you the hot meal.”
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