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“Notes on Symphony No. 6”

“This evening I feel sad and am shedding tears because this morning while wandering in the woods I was unable to find a single violet. What an old sniveller I am...!”

“I played over the music of that scoundrel Brahms. What a giftless bastard! It annoys me that this self-inflated mediocrity is hailed as a genius.”

“What I need is to believe in myself again— for my faith has been greatly undermined; it seems to me my role is over.”

“Piotr Tchaikovsky at the Classical Music Pages.”

“I am a Russian, Russian, Russian, to the marrow of my bones.”

Resonant Thoughts

"Today freedom also means the freedom to hate, it means the freedom to say anything, it means the freedom to disparage people, to dehumanize people, to believe in the culture of cruelty, to believe tha…"

— Henry Giroux

Politics1943

#justice

"So while gun owners are always saying that owning guns is about defending freedom, the only freedom gun owners seem interested in defending with their guns is the freedom to defend their freedom to ow…"

— Dan Savage

Journalism1964

#freedom

"I suppose Abraham Lincoln knew that was what would happen. He was very wise in the ways of men. He knew how people think and feel. Doubtless he knew that deeper than anything else in the hearts of men…"

— Pearl S. Buck

Literature1892–1973

#freedom

"Unless a man has talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden. Of what avail is freedom to choose if the self be ineffectual? We join a mass movement to escape individual respons…"

— Eric Hoffer

Literature1902–1983

#freedom