"For I consider that music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all, whether a feeling, an attitude of mind, a psychological mood, a phenomenon of nature, etc. Expressio…"

"The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music. They should be taught to love it instead."

"My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell."

"Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all."

"A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible."