Usually music is used to hide a film's problems.
I loved your country [America] before I knew it.
Art is great only when it bears the stamp of the individual.
Chopin was an invalid, as you know, but his music was volcanic.
Change follows change in us, almost without transition; we pass from blissful rapture to sobbing woe; a single step divides our sublimest ecstasies from the darkest depth of spiritual despondency.
Musical expression is never primarily national, but is personal and individual rather. It is so deep, so profound, that it goes beyond and below nationality and gives voice to the most private feeling. In music there is never exact heredity. Each man is an individual.
Rhythm is the pulse of music.
I'm ready to forgive him for the desire to be a king, but not for wanting to have 23 million court jesters.
Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.
Now in the light of past and present events the bitter truth must be spoken. We feared too little and we hoped too much. We underestimated the bestiality of the enemy; we overestimtaed the humanity, the wisdom, the sense of justice of our friends.
If dirt were dollars, I wouldn't have to worry anymore.