The real deep text of music and the whole reason that it has continued with the profundity and urgency that it has for over a thousand years, has to do with what the notes say, what the notes witness, different experiences of hope or doubt that people are able to distill and encode and pass on in this way.
Michael Tilson ThomasIf you're curious, if you have a capacity for wonder, if you're alive, you know all that you need to know [about music].
Michael Tilson Thomas