The 20th century has been a badly written drama, from the beginning.
Conducting is like making love to a hundred people at the same time.
I believe that man's noblest endowment is his capacity to change.
Even experimental composers, revolutionary composers, self-styled radicals are, in writing revolutionary music, recognizing the music that preceded them precisely by trying to avoid it.
Life without music is unthinkable.
I'm no longer quite sure what the question is, but I do know that the answer is Yes.