“…everybody hated him because he was very dry, and I thought he was wonderful because he was very dry.
“And Barrow made me realize that all my romantic views of art were nonsense. I had always thought an angel came down and sat on your shoulder and whispered in your ear 'dah-dah-dah-DUM.' Never occurred to me that art was something worked out.
“And suddenly it was skies opening up. As soon as you find out what a leading tone is, you think, Oh my God. What a diatonic scale is–Oh my God! The logic of it. And, of course, what that meant to me was:
“Well, I can do that. Because you just don't know. You think it's a talent, you think you're born with this thing.
"What I've found out and what I believed is that everybody is talented. It's just that some people get it developed and some don't.“
Stephen Sondheim