Don Satz:

>It must be nit-picking time.  I'd say that the emotion would be felt
>during the creative process, and when that takes place for different
>individuals, I have no idea.

This reduces the formulation to meaninglessness - one might as well say
"to be a composer one must feel, at some time or another."

Often the most powerful statements come from pure manipulation, and then
realising what has been found.  Poor composers often walk past their best
ideas.  Not because they don't feel, or feel less, but are too busy feeling
things other than the music.  Emotion which clouds judgement is useless.
I've never felt better or more intensely than when writing an epic poem
some years ago.  It is also by a wide margin the worst thing I have ever
completed.

Stirling