“Without music, life would be an error.”
—Nietzsche
“Before I compose a piece, I walk around it several times, accompanied by myself.”
—Erik Satie
“I’m not sure that the actual art of composition can be taught. What you really have to do is teach all ‘around the edges’ of the art. ”
—Scott Pender
“Give me a laundry list and I will set it to music.”
—Rossini
“There is one question that a composer ought always to ask of the music he is writing: Is this music that I want to hear and that I could not otherwise hear?”
—Edward Cone
