The same piece of music alters at each hearing. But oh, the need to repeat and repeat and repeat unchanged the sexual experience.

I don't go to concerts much. I've heard everything. When I do go to movies, I walk out half the time. As for literature, I've read everything.

All men are forced into one of two categories: those with eleven fingers and those without.

The hardest of all the arts to speak of is music, because music has no meaning to speak of

Intelligence is silence, truth is being invisible. But what a racket I make in declaring this.

Why, after all, must everyone like music? That they are missing something is just the lover's opinion.

Music is the sole art which evokes nostalgia for the future.