There are no indisputable truths.
Look at the piano. You'll notice that there are white notes and black notes. Figure out the difference between them and you'll be able to make whatever kind of music you want.
Life is a lot like jazz. . . it's best when you improvise.
True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time.
Originality is the only thing that counts. But the originator uses material and ideas that occur round him and pass through him. And out of his experience comes the original creation.
The composer does not sit around and wait for an inspiration to walk up and introduce itself…Making music is actually little else than a matter of invention aided and abetted by emotion. In composing we combine what we know of music with what we feel.
I like to think of music as an emotional science.
It is love which made all this. War which protects it. With love comes responsibility and possibility, fear and hopes, quests and suffering.
Anything too stupid to be said is sung.
In Paris there are few changes; one always finds one's niche there when one returns - no matter how long one may have been away.
Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.