Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf

I don't want to earn my living; I want to live.

I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir their dust into consciosness, to wake their ashes in pain.

If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.