When I need the idea, I can find it immediately. I have a horror of rewriting or deleting; the parts of my composition are carried in my head 'till I can write them down, even to the last note. Then I do not alter a jot.
alter carry composition
These are some quotes by Italian author Ruggero Leoncavallo Composer, who lived between March 8, 1857 and August 9, 1919.