I want an ending that's satisfying. I'm more of a classical writer than a modernist one in that I want the ending to be coherent and feel like an ending. I don't like when it just seems to putter out. I mean, life is chaotic enough.
“I am going to leave everything on the field. I am going everywhere, and I am going to listen to everybody.”
“I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable.”