Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
Music is given to us specifically to make order of things, to move from an anarchic, individualistic state to a regulated, perfectly concious one, which alone insures vitality and durability.
Revolution means turning the wheel.
I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
We can neither put back the clock nor slow down our forward speed, and as we are already flying pilotless, on instrument controls, it is even too late to ask where we are going.