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I suspect music is auditory cheesecake, an exquisite confection crafted to tickle the sensitive spots of... our mental faculties.
 
Play the music, not the instrument.
 
It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how music should be played.
 
I cannot listen to Beethoven or Mahler or Chopin or Bach when I write because those composers require you stop what you are doing and listen.
 
Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
 
Only sick music makes money today.
 
I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.
 
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