My God, how can anyone ever be a master of music?
There are only two things worth aiming for, good music and a clean conscience. 
Tonality is a natural force, like gravity.
This music, transmitted by loud-speakers, made a masterpiece appear like an amateurish attempt at composition by nimcompoop 
Your task it is, amid confusion, rush, and noise, to grasp the lasting, calm and meaningful, and finding it anew, to hold and treasure it.
The reactions music evokes are not feelings, but they are the images, memories of feelings.
The discrepancy between the vacationists' good times and Isolde's unfortunate experience is more than disgusting
