Here are a few thoughts I have picked up over the years that
say something about my approach to composing music:
say something about my approach to composing music:
“What I have in my heart must come out; that is the reason
why I compose.”
why I compose.”
- Ludwig van Beethoven
“I myself having been created, I cannot help having the desire
to create.”
to create.”
- Igor Stravinsky
“You must do something to make the world more beautiful.”
- from Miss Rumphius, by Barbara Cooney
“Soli deo gloria”
- Johann Sebastian Bach would write the initials SDG
(Glory to God alone) at the end of a completed score.
(Glory to God alone) at the end of a completed score.
“Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps
of sub-consciousness. I wouldn’t know. But I am sure it is the
antithesis of self-consciousness.”
of sub-consciousness. I wouldn’t know. But I am sure it is the
antithesis of self-consciousness.”
- Aaron Copland
“The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks
his own ends, but one who allows art to realize its purposes through him.”
- Carl Gustave Jung
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