"One day I said to myself that it would be better to get rid of all that—melody, rhythm, harmony, etc. This was not a …"

"Comin' in on a wing and a pray'r Comin' in on a wing and a pray'r Tho' there's one motor gone, We can still carry on,…"

"You must remember that it was a different time...It was before everyone was looking into their smartphones. There wer…"

"Very often the things that we consider to be new are not new. They're just new combinations or reanimations and reima…"

"Even while I was studying at [Manhattan School of Music], I was learning about melody and rhythm, and theory, and har…"

"Being curious is an absolute rule of life. If you don’t have that, I don’t know what you're doing in this music."

"The most complete knowledge of tonal material cannot create a composer any more than the memorizing of Webster's dict…"

"As a music theorist, I have always contended that the historical approach to music theory is not enough. The modern t…"

"My music springs from the soil of the American midwest. It is music of the plains rather than of the city and reflect…"

"The artistic contribution of any nation and any age must be in terms of creation. Performers, symphony organizations,…"