"I think the origin of all this clamour for tonality is not so much the need to sense a relationship to the tonic, as …"

"I regard Alban Berg as a musical swindler and a musician dangerous to the community. One should go even further. Unpr…"

"If...Berg departs so radically from tradition, through his substitution of a symmetrical partitioning of the octave f…"

"Music is become a complaisant and versatile handmaiden, and, since the impossible is demanded of her, she calls up al…"

"Is it not permissible for a pope to pronounce a law unjust? Every newspaper arrogates to itself the right of stigmati…"

"Doctrinaire formula-worship, that is our real enemy."

"We are in danger of producing an educated proletariat. That's dynamite! We have to be selective on who we allow to go…"

"I think that being an outsider has been very important for me because it made it possible for me to take a different …"

"My research came out of my very early traumas. Out of questions like, does it really have to be this way? Does there …"

"We’re told we are bad. That’s inherent in us, so we have to be rigidly controlled by those on top."