"…We didn't hear enough about making the enemy irrelevant. No one said, loud enough to be heard over the din of pacification, ‘Let's make something beautiful, so the enemy will have one less place to stand’…"

"Resistance" by Barry Lopez
(great book by the way!)

"La musique est élévation, élargissement de la vie.
Au mieux elle aide des gens à vivre leur vie.
Au pire elle ne les aide pas."

"Humiliation" (from "Words with Music")
by Simon Critchley