“Music is the essence of Romanticism,” says Colin Wilson in Private Passions interviewed by Michael Berkeley on BBC Radio 3’s about his taste in music. He adds that Nietzsche wanted to be a musician but then decided against it because it would have been too dangerous for him.

Via Stephen’s This Space who admits being a bit ashamed embarrassed of having read so much Wilson.

Some more quotes from this programme:

“You can’t put philosophical ideas into music, the only thing that interests me.”

“Ritual in the Dark is a novel about a sadist, and I used Prokofiev as a leitmotif because it was a dark piece of music.”