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The creative is the place

The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
Even the best of friends need time apart.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.