I have never been able to understand women composers who do not wish t — Beth Anderson

"Real music soars above class society."

"My own mystic bent leads me to believe that musical variations, collage, reiteration and process, or evolution, are beautiful. Life is worth living and beauty is worth making."

"The relationship of feminism to my work and the evolution of the form of my music are in violent flux."

"The idea that beauty is revolution is a revelation to me. I once believed that the concept of the music was more important than the sound, that the politics of the notation was more important than the time limits of the rehersals and therefore, more important than the sound of the performance"

"Beauty means perfect to me, but it also has an additional meaning having to do with being pleasurable, rather than painful. Beauty is hard to make. The making is painful, and involves a certain amount of craft, and a relaxation of the part of the brain that says, "Dont write that. X wrote those four notes in 1542 or 1979 or 1825 or whatever period you are worried about being influenced by."

"To make something beautiful is revolutionary (not low class, not easy, not a sign of low intelligence)."