Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
See things as they are and write about them. Don?t waste your creative energy trying to make things up. Even if you are writing fiction, write the things you see and know.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
It is better to wear out than to rust out.