Rules for creating music today:

• Writing material is not the same as creating a piece.
• If you start writing without knowing what you are doing, you are not in the process of writing a piece.
• There is no reason for writing a piece in three movements.
• People who don't like playing a certain type music should not do so.
• People who don't like playing a certain type of music should not charge other people for hearing it.
• If you only play classical music by dead composers, you have to be aware that you are working in a museum.
• Playing a piece technically well has more to do with sport than art.
• A piece that was created in 1816 is less relevant to today's society than a piece created in 2016.
• If you repeat something because it worked before you are making a commercial decision, not an artistic one.
• Imagining how an audience would respond is patronising.
• Putting on a programme that you think people will like is patronising.
• Poems should not be set to music. It has never been a good idea.
• If you are concerned with colour when writing music you're a decorator.
• to be continued