All the arts contribute to the greatest of all: to live!
Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956)

I feel that the music must touch the emotions before and the intellect then!
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)

The great geniuses don't look for ideas, but rather seek the places where the Gods might speak to them.
Rudolf Steiner (1861 - 1925)

The true music must mirror the thought and the inspiration of people and the times.
My people they are the Americans and my time it is today.
George Gershwin (1898-1937)

Trieste, December,14 2008:
... without you nothing would have happened... I have written a beautiful composition,
but if you had not orchestrated everything, I never could have succeeded!
Federico Bellini (1978)