I do not trust self serving misinformation coming from corporations and their media trolls. I do not trust politicians who are taking millions from those corporations either. I trust people. So I make my music for people not for candidates.

Real Patriots, who may resist the intrigues of the favourite, are liable to become suspected and odious; while its tools and dupes usurp the applause and confidence of the people, to surrender their interests.

People's Fury is above all the furies.

How can I accept the Order of the Garter, when the people of England have just given me the Order of the Boot?

Best wishes for your personal well-being as well as for the prosperous future of the peoples of the friendly Soviet Union.

For I must not measure the speech of a statesman to his people... but by the effect it exerts on the people.