If they cut off both hands, I will compose music anyway holding the pen in my teeth.

He fell like a chicken into the soup.

If they cut off both hands, I will compose music anyway holding the pen in my teeth.

What can be considered human emotions? Surely not only lyricism, sadness, tragedy? Doesn't laughter also have a claim to that lofty title? I want to fight for the legitimate right of laughter in "serious" music.

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

The majority of my symphonies are tombstones.

A great piece of music is beautiful regardless of how it is performed.