Who said “Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.”?

“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.”

“Good music is very close to primitive language.”

“Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.”

“I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.”

“No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.”

“A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.”

“Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.”

“It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.”