'Jazz is the false liquidation of art - instead of utopia becoming reality it disappears from the picture.'

'In general they are intoxicated by the fame of mass culture, a fame which the latter knows how to manipulate; they could just as well get together in clubs fo…

'When I made my theoretical model, I could not have guessed that people would try to realise it with Molotov cocktails.'

'The aim of jazz is the mechanical reproduction of a regressive moment, a castration symbolism. 'Give up your masculinity, let yourself be castrated,' the eunu…

By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with.

Mozart's music represents neither the prolonged sigh of faith that characterizes so much of the music written before his time, nor the stormy idealism which cl…

All things considered, I could never have survived my youth without Wagnerian music. For I seemed condemned to the society of Germans. If a man wishes to rid h…