“Music I heard with you was more than music,
And bread I broke with you was more than bread;”

“The Nazi agitator whom, many years ago, I heard proclaim to a wildly cheering peasants’ meeting: ‘We don’t want lower bread prices, we don’t want higher bread prices, we don’t want unchanged bread prices—we want National-Socialist bread prices,’ came nearer explaining fascism than anybody I have heard since.”

“… Man lives by affirmation even more than he does by bread.”

“Man needs dignity even more than he needs bread.”

“The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.”

“Men have died for this music. You can’t get more serious than that.”

“The music in my heart I bore
Long after it was heard no more.”

“You must love the crust of the earth on which you dwell more than the sweet crust of any bread or cake; you must be able to extract nutriment out of a sand heap.”

“A piece of art is not a loaf of bread. When someone steals a loaf of bread from the store, that's it. The loaf of bread is gone. When someone downloads a piece of music, it's just data until the listener puts that music back together with their own ears, their mind, their subjective experience. How they perceive your work changes your work.”

“music heard so deeply
That it is not heard at all, but
you are the music
While the music lasts.”