"I came home with a vague but strong feeling that even the best music we know is too cooped up -- more so than nature intended it should be ... all up and down even little compartments, over and over ... producing some sense of weakness, even in the great."

"From Memos §17:  "A song does not necessarily have to be in any one key to make musical sense."

"From Memos §30:  "Labels in art are popular, easy to make, equally confusing, and usually wrong somewhere."

"From Memos §34:  "Some musicians have a reverence for doing certain things in a certain way, which is more the result of habit or custom than it is of reason or musical sense."

"From Memos §35:  "I've always been a good Jew's harp player regardless of consequences, but I don't know exactly how to write for it."

"From Memos §51:  "So, as I look back, I seem to have worked with more natural freedom when I knew the music was not going to be inflicted on others."