Real music is always revolutionary, for it cements the ranks of the people; it arouses them and leads them onward.

Music is a means capable of expressing dark dramatism and pure rapture, suffering and ecstasy, fiery and cold fury, melancholy and wild merriment - and the sub…

The real geniuses know where their writing has to be good and where they can get away with some mediocrity.

I don't think that either self-deprecation or self-aggrandizement is among the defining qualities of an artist:Beethoven could have been forgiven if his sympho…

There can be no music without ideology. The old composers, whether they knew it or not, were upholding a political theory. Most of them, of course, were bolste…

Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated classes, that a taste for t…

There lies somehing revolutionary in the music.