The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.

They [the critics] deal with Schoenberg's early works and all their wealth by classifying them, with the music-historical cliché, as late romantic post-Wagnerian. One might just as well dispose of Beethoven as a late-classicist post-Haydnerian.

In the end indignation over kitsch is anger at tis shameless revelling in the joy of imitation.

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

Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.

It is barbaric to write poetry after Auschwitz.

Anti-Semitism is the rumour about the Jews.