“The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.”
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Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.
A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.
The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.
Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the conductor we do not remember him in it.
