Monday Quote of the Night
To be frank, recently I have felt so stupid, so dazed, so empty-headed that I have truly doubted whether I am able to write anything new at all anymore. All the tangled chaos that the musical periodicals vomit thick and fast about the music of today has come to weigh heavily on me. . . .
– Béla Bartók, 1926
N.B. In the same year, W.B. Yeats wrote “Sailing to Byzantium”. Its opening line - That is no country for old men - seems to reflect commiseration.
AuthorScoop
