I have never been able to understand women composers who do not wish to be called women composers. I understand their argument but it seems so superf… - Beth Anderson

I used to be obsessed with this idea that odd numbers are masculine and even ones are feminine. So I wrote pieces that used even numbers, as in:

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

I've rediscovered the part of my brain that can't decode anything, that can't add, that can't work from a verbalized concept, that doesn't care about stylish notation, that makes melodies that have pitch and rhythm, that doesn't know anything about zen eternity and gets bored and changes, that isn't worried about being commercial or avant-garde or serial or any other little category. Beauty is enough.