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Chris:

"It's not enough for me to respect the music. Respecting the audience is as important." There was a time that I did not love classical music as I do now. I almost hated it, or at least was very bored by it. There was also a time when I did not respect classical musicians and was most definately bored by them. I remember as a child verbalizing that I would never become one of those funny looking people in monkey suits acting so seriously. I will never forget there are others at this moment who feel just as I did. Those are the people I would most like to reach. Classical music does not have to be a dead language."

Bernstein The Unanswererd Question	Mel Brooks New York Times Interview
"Einstein said the most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious." Then why do so many of us try to explain the beauty of music, thus apparently depriving it of its mystery?"	My message to the world is: "Let's swing, sing, shout, make noise! Let's not mimic death before our time comes! Let's be wet and noisy."

William Burrows Crawdaddy Aaron Copeland radio address

"A rock concert is in fact a rite involving the evocation and transmutation of energy" "The greatest moments of the human spirit may be deduced from the greatest moments in music."

Miles Davis Down Beat '55 Lance Morrow Fishing in the Tiber

"If a guy makes you pat your foot and you feel it down your back, you don't have to ask anybody if that's good music or not. You can always feel it." "Music is a form of spiritual carbon dating."

Ned Rorem The Final Diary 1974 Carl Sandberg The American Songbook 1297

"To the social minded, a definition for a concert is: that which surrounds an intermission." "Songs are like people, animals, plants. They have genealogies, pedigrees, throuroughbreds, crossbreeds, mongrels, strays and often a strange lovechild."

Igor Stravinsky New York Times 1964 Deems Taylor Of Men and Music

"The trouble with music appreciation in general is people are taught to have too much respect for music; they should be taught to love it instead." "The great American music of the future will be a music to which America will listen and respond. But it will not be the music of Sitting Bull or Booker T. Washington or even George. It will, like all great music, belong to the world. And the world will not be curious regarding the name or address of the composer."

Daniel Webster President John F. Kennedy At a White House Concert, Aug.16. 1962

"When tillage begins other arts follow. The farmers therefore are the founders of human civilization." "Last year, more Americans went to symphonies than to baseball games. This may be viewed as an alarming statistic, but I think that both baseball and the country will survive."

Ignacy Paderewski Artur Schnabel

"Piano playing is more difficult than statesmanship. It is harder to wake emotions in ivory keys than it is in human beings." "Have I secret about playing the piano? It is a very simple one. I sit down on the piano-stool and make myself comfortable - and I always make sure that the lid over the keyboard is open before I start to play."

Oscar Wilde
"Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow."

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William Burrows Crawdaddy	Aaron Copeland radio address
"A rock concert is in fact a rite involving the evocation and transmutation of energy"	"The greatest moments of the human spirit may be deduced from the greatest moments in music."

Miles Davis Down Beat '55	Lance Morrow Fishing in the Tiber
"If a guy makes you pat your foot and you feel it down your back, you don't have to ask anybody if that's good music or not. You can always feel it."	"Music is a form of spiritual carbon dating."

Ned Rorem The Final Diary 1974	Carl Sandberg The American Songbook 1297
"To the social minded, a definition for a concert is: that which surrounds an intermission."	"Songs are like people, animals, plants. They have genealogies, pedigrees, throuroughbreds, crossbreeds, mongrels, strays and often a strange lovechild."

Igor Stravinsky New York Times 1964	Deems Taylor Of Men and Music
"The trouble with music appreciation in general is people are taught to have too much respect for music; they should be taught to love it instead."	"The great American music of the future will be a music to which America will listen and respond. But it will not be the music of Sitting Bull or Booker T. Washington or even George. It will, like all great music, belong to the world. And the world will not be curious regarding the name or address of the composer."

Daniel Webster	President John F. Kennedy At a White House Concert, Aug.16. 1962
"When tillage begins other arts follow. The farmers therefore are the founders of human civilization."	"Last year, more Americans went to symphonies than to baseball games. This may be viewed as an alarming statistic, but I think that both baseball and the country will survive."

Ignacy Paderewski	Artur Schnabel
"Piano playing is more difficult than statesmanship. It is harder to wake emotions in ivory keys than it is in human beings."	"Have I secret about playing the piano? It is a very simple one. I sit down on the piano-stool and make myself comfortable - and I always make sure that the lid over the keyboard is open before I start to play."