Things I couldn’t have said better myself…
The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers. (Arthur Koestler)
A writer’s problem does not change. He himself changes and the world he lives in changes but his problem remains the same. It is always how to write truly and having found what is true, to project it in such a way that it becomes a part of the experience of the person who reads it. (Ernest Hemmingway)
Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one has no time to write down. (Hector Berlioz)
There is only one trait that marks the writer. He is always watching. It’s a kind of trick of mind and he is born with it. (Morley Callaghan)
I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it. (Igor Stravinski)
The real lost souls don’t wear their hair long and play guitars. They have crew cuts, trained minds, sign on for research in biological warfare, and don’t give their parents a moment’s worry. (J.B. Priestley)
Without music life would be a mistake. (Friedrich Nietzche)
I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the varieties of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust. (Igor Stravinski)
Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you. (Malcolm Cowley)
The notes I handle no better than most pianists. But the pauses between the notes-ah, that is where the art resides! (Arthur Schnabel)
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. (Aldous Huxley)
Anxiety is the essential condition of intellectual and artistic creation . . . and everything that is finest in human history. (Charles Frankel)
The difference between a top-flight creative man and the hack is his ability to express powerful meanings indirectly. (Vance Packard)
In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brain. (George Szell)
It is the function of creative men to perceive the relations between thoughts, or things, or forms of expression that may seem utterly different, and to be able to combine them into some new forms-the power to connect the seemingly unconnected. (William Plomer)
