"Most artists are doing basically the same thing — staying off the streets."

"I’m dead serious about being nonsensical."

"There's room for saying things in bright shiny colours."

"In the dry places, men begin to dream. Where the rivers run sand, there is something in man that begins to flow. West…"

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

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

"In music, the great essential after creation itself is communication through performance...it is of immediate and pri…"

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

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

"To the artist, to the musician, is given the task of creating and expressing beauty--of sensitizing the souls of men."