Hanns Eisler

Someone who knows only music, understands nothing about it.

I've worked throughout California as a poet: in colleges, universities, worker camps, migrant education offices, continuation high schools, juvenile halls, prisons, and gifted classrooms.

Composers, like authors, have a lot in common. Our main goal is to connect with the listener emotionally.

I think that, in almost all human beings, there is buried a profound tribal instinct that makes us very susceptible to being aroused to patriotic fervour.