US composer.
"He won the 1976 Pulitzer for his Bicentennial commission "Air Music," and published many diaries."
Humor is the ability to see 3 sides to one coin.
Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced.
"The Great don't innovate, they fertilize seeds planted by lackeys, they leave to others the inhaling of the flowers whose roots they've manured. A deceptive memory may be the key to their originality."
"Divine fires do not blaze each day, but an artist functions in their afterglow hoping for their recurrence."
"To see itself through, music must have idea or magic. ... Music with neither dies young though rich.""