The story of twentieth-century music is largely a story of noise

People often ask me how I think music will change in the future. I have no idea.

Gustav Mahler, Wagner's most devoted disciple, yet a Jew and a modernist, faced many contradictions.

Music resists visualization; it is pure invisibility.

Silence is not the absence of music, but a part of it.

Art is a form of time travel. It provides us with a window into the past.

The symphony has played a central role in the cultural life of the West for more than 200 years.

Beethoven became a god, not because he was a master of musical form, but because he put himself into the music.

The truth is, we are all in a state of constant change. Music is no exception.

Music can express things words can't even touch.

The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century