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I think it's good for the composer to teach because you always have new students and you have to begin at the beginning and make things clear. John Corigliano Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind. Johannes Brahms Young people can learn from my example that something can come from nothing. What I have become is the result of my hard efforts. Joseph Haydn

"I believe art is born, not of 'I can' but of 'I must'" - Arnold Schoenberg "Only when I experience intensely do I compose; only when I compose do I experience intensely." - Gustav Mahler "Everything beautiful is difficult, the short the most difficult." - Robert Schumann "It is not hard to compose, but what is fabulously hard is to leave the superfluous notes under the table." - Johannes Brahms "Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius." - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart "Melody... is the greatest of divine gifts, not to be compared with any other." - Richard Strauss "How can I compose without melody?" - Sergei Rachmaninoff

"There's always a bigger fish" -Qui-Gon Jinn

"My time is not yet passed and I can still work". Tchaikovsky Comment: one can and should never stop struggling to improve. "... music is supra-personal and super-real and as such beyond verbal meanings and verbal descriptions (...). Music expresses itself". Stravinsky Comment: to see music as nothing but personal expression is too narrow. "There is such a thing as inspiration - but it must find you working". Picasso Comment: A work of genius is the result of a drop of inspiration falling into a pool of knowledge.

Nothing of your Sententias, Inklings or Soliloquys holds up to my standards and, I am pretty sure, to most of people musically trained for at least a couple of years.

And, to continue: nobody wouldn't mind all these soliloquys and inklings if there was any logical combination of form and creative musical language in them - although recent few bar pieces of yours are really terrible - sorry, I cannot tell a lie. All miniatures, preludes, nocturnos by composers such as Chopin, Mendelssohn, Schumann etc. are more or less perfect in formal and tonal structure. Believe me, their focus on both terms did not affect their expression at all. How to handle a form is necessary. Imagine the architecture: what would happen if all houses were designed strictly on inner expression of builders? Believe me, you wouldn't dare to try it in person.

Miniatures and bagatelles are usually at least a minute-and-a-half up to three minutes long.

perhaps knowing that the composition can be improved infinitely and shouldn't be defended with excuses and denial when it comes to rational criticism. artistic conviction is one thing, pride that is driven by delusions of grandeur is another.