“I have no aesthetic rules, or philosophy, or theories. I love to write music. I always do it with pleasure, otherwise I just do not write it.”
—Darius Milhaud
“When it sounds good, it is good.”
—Ellington
“I have never acknowledged the difference between “serious” music and “light” music. There is only good music and bad music.”
—Kurt Weill
“Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second.”
—Ravel
“I pay no attention whatever to anybody’s praise or blame…I simply follow my own feelings.”
—Mozart
