Quotes by Musicologists

Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they’re only animals.

...the beautiful in nature is like a spark flashing momentarily and disappearing as soon as one tries to get hold of it.

Words tend to bounce off nature as they try to deliver nature's language into the hands of another language foreign to it.

If one were to include one-tenth of the remarkable people one knows, in one's fiction, no one would accept it. Real life remains one's private menagerie.

On the way from mythology to logistics thought has lost the element of self-reflection and today machinery disables men even as it nurtures them.

In a supersonic jet, you'll land before you take off. Your watch - if it's working right - will go back. (It'll stop if it's not). You've made a journey forwards and backwards at the same time. The trip will make you younger.