I began composing works which were imitative of the music I was being told about. I was also very interested in translating the music into visual terms.
“Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.”
“Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty.”