The hardest of all the arts to speak of is music, because music has no meaning to speak of

To see itself through, music must have idea or magic. ... Music with neither dies young though rich."

The twelve-toners behave as if music should be seen and not heard

Art means to dare - and to have been right

Divine fires do not blaze each day, but an artist functions in their afterglow hoping for their recurrence.

Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced.