There lies somehing revolutionary in the music.

The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, 'Thus far and no farther.'

This [pointing to his head] and this [pointing to his heart] is my nobility.

Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.

All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The violence of revolutions is the violence of men who charge into a vacuum.

Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering; the capacity for self-indulgence changes hands.

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…