May 31, 2018

If you concentrate on small, important things, does the urge to create spectacle fall away?

May 20, 2018

Dispense with niceties, frills, surface distractions. But retain respect for all attempts at honest expression.

May 17, 2018

Dying strains come back to some kind of life each time they are sung/played.

May 11, 2018

Sometimes writing more music just can’t be helped.

Just when you think you’ve developed your language enough, you realize you have nothing to say. But when the language fails and you can’t quite articulate, ideas sprout anew from your very inability to speak! You are again at the beginning—after all that.

May 10, 2018

One harmony; myriad worlds.

Can there be variety in regularity?

Think about rates of change.

Get the right schwung.