In any case, Ives encouraged me to go into music even though he himself had such a hard time being a composer.
“Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.”
“I think I infuse the music with a new passion. Part of this is because I have fallen in love: I am in love with the New York Philharmonic. The chemistry has just been right. Beyond expectation.”