“The Piano Concerto, composed in 1868, survives unceasing exposure only to emerge perennially and indestructibly fresh.”

“It can be savage, unpredictable, ecstactic, indestructibly powerful, pleasurable, a kind of primordial music that is beyond the mere phenomenology of representation.”

“And the fact that it is indestructibly popular, even though the horses that run in it are nothing more than lottery numbers, may be significant.”