“Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.”
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In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.
The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.
The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.
An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.