„What do you think of Puccini?[ Britten: “I think his operas are dreadful.” ]No, Ben, you are wrong. He wrote marvellous operas, but dreadful music.“

— Dmitri Shostakovich

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„Wagner wrote an opera titled Tristan and Yseult and in it there is a theme called Love Death theme. It is so sensual, so sexual that he was criticized for having introduced sex into music. And that was quite a few years before the appearance of Elvis Presley!“
— Henry Miller
„I do not think that tragedy is our natural fate and I do not live in chronic dread of disaster. It is no happiness, but suffering that I consider unnatural. It is not success, but calamity that I regard as the abnormal exception in Human Life.“
— Ayn Rand
„If you're listening to this songYou may think the chords are going wrongBut they're notWe just wrote it like that“
— George Harrison