"My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music." ― Vladimir Nabokov Topic(s): Music More From Vladimir Nabokov "It’s a pity one can’t imagine what one can’t compare to anything. Genius is an African who dreams up snow." "To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute." "A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past." More In Music "Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love."― Hector Berlioz "I still enjoy doing music. I’m not going to stop doing it, and doing it the way that I feel it should be done."― Ice Cube "Music is the melody whose text is the world."― Arthur Schopenhauer