Music truely has to all other arts the same relation as religion to the church.
The immoral profession of musical criticism must be abolished.
My destiny is solitude, and my life is work.
Many's the man/ who thought himself wise/ but what he needed/ he did not know.
When religion becomes artificial, art has a duty to rescue it. Art can show that the symbols which religions would have us believe literally true are actually figurative. Art can idealize those symbols, and so reveal the profound truths they contain.
I write music with an exclamation point!