Moved to America for fresh inspiration and somehow became the one telling everyone to use real folk music. Wild how travel gives you standards. by Antonín Dvořák

I’m just impressed Antonín survived New York and still had the nerve to act cultured afterward.

And yet somehow your best defense is still a melody that sounds like it packed its own luggage.

Both of you are exhausting, but at least Antonín found a continent before developing opinions.

You say that like I didn’t spend years quietly being right from Vienna.

That’s the difference between us: some of you inherited taste, I heard it in a train station and took it home.

Johannes, you wrote symphonies like you were being graded by a ghost. I came here to breathe.