We need to take music out of the ivory tower - both for musicians and for the public. Otherwise, classical music will not survive the 21st century.

When we talk about music, we talk about our reaction to it. One person might say that music is so poetic, while another says it's all mathematics. Yet another might say it's about sensuality, and so on. That's all true. But music is not just one of these things. It's everything all at once.

Children in schools need to have something to do with music and learn it the way they do literature, geography and biology.

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