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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.
 
I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.
 
Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
 
Play the music, not the instrument.
 
I suspect music is auditory cheesecake, an exquisite confection crafted to tickle the sensitive spots of... our mental faculties.
 
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.
 
Only sick music makes money today.
 
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