“If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it in conversation.”
“The measure of one's love for good poetry and for good music is the hatred, the violent hatred, one feels for bad poetry and bad music.”
“If one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.”
“Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear.”
“There is a certain type of conversation one hears only when one is drunk and it is like a dream, full of humor and threat and significance, deep significance.”
“Which is more musical, a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school?Are the people inside the school musical and the ones outside unmusical?What if the ones inside can't hear very well, would that change my question?”