We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them.
I have given two cousins to war and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife's brother.
There is no doubt that the first requirement for a composer is to be dead.
These days an income is something you can't live without--or within.
The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.