Who said “Good music is very close to primitive language.”?

“If music be the food of love; play on.”

“Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.”

“Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.”

“Music is spiritual. The music business is not.”

“Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.”

“There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.”

“Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.”

“The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.”

“All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.”

“It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.”

“Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.”