contributed by Bryan Baker

• Maybe something has been achieved, but it was not I who deserves the credit for that.
  
  The credit must be given to my opponents.
  
  They were the ones who really helped me.

  Arnold Schoenberg

• The sound of the sea, the curve of a horizon, wind in leaves, the cry of a bird leave manifold impression in us.
  
  And suddenly, without our wishing it at all, one of these memories spills from us and finds expression in musical language...
  
  I want to sing my interior landscape with the simple artlessness of a child.

  Claude Debussy

Give the people what they want, and they will give you what you want. - William Ballester