It's amazing how fast generations lose sight of other generations. One of the first things the young composers who come to work with me say is that they want to write music people will like, instead of gaining their credentials by being rejected by the audience.
“Gardening has just sort of grown on me. I find it therapeutic. And I like smelly things.”
“The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty.”