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Most People Use Music As A Couch; They Want To Be Pillowed On It, Relaxed And Consoled For The Stress Of Daily Living. But Serious Music Was Never Meant To Be Soporific.

Mozart In His Music Was Probably The Most Reasonable Of The World's Great Composers. It Is The Happy Balance Between Flight And Control, Between Sensibility And Self-discipline, Simplicity And Sophistication Of Style That Is His Particular Province... Mozart Tapped Once Again The Source From Which All Music Flows, Expressing Himself With A Spontaneity And Refinement And Breath-taking Rightness That Has Never Since Been Duplicated.

There Is Something About Music That Keeps Its Distance Even At The Moment That It Engulfs Us. It Is At The Same Time Outside And Away From Us And Inside And Part Of Us. In One Sense It Dwarfs Us, And In Another We Master It. We Are Led On And On, And Yet In Some Strange Way We Never Lose Control.

I Adore Extravagance But I Abhor Waste.

If One Were Asked To Name One Musician Who Came Closest To Composing Without Human Flaw, I Suppose General Consensus Would Choose Johann Sebastian Bach.