It is a most stimulating and inspiring process to think along those lines (la Bible) before entering that trance-like state in which inspirations come.
When I enter that dream-like state, I am in a trance-like condition - hovering between being asleep and awake ; I am still conscious but right on the border of losing consciousness, and it is at such moments that inspired ideas come.
I always have had a definite purpose in view, before invoking the Muse and entering into such a mood ; and as I pointed out to you before, contemplating what Goethe, Milton and Tennyson said stimulated my fantasy to a powerful degree.
Then when I felt those higher Cosmic vibrations, I knew that I was in touch with the same Power that inspired those great poets and also Bach, Mozart and Beethoven. Then the ideas which I was consciously seeking flowed in upon me with such force and speed, that I could only grasp and hold a few of them ; I never was able to jot them all down ; they came in instantaneous flashes and quickly faded away again, unless I fixed them on paper. The themes that will endure in my compositions all come to me in this way.
It has always been such a wonderful experience...
A composer who wishes to write worth-while music must devote his whole time and energy to that one occupation. If I had had as many calls upon me as you have had, Joseph (Joachim, le violoniste) , I could not have created anything worth listening to, either.
d'après Arthur Abell "Talks with the great composers", Citadel Press - Compositeur .org - Forum des Compositeurs : Musique et Composition
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