"I don't myself use records,
and I give the example of someone who lives happily without records.
But I notice that no one pays any attention to me.
Or maybe a few pay attention but most people use records."
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"No, it's really not useful at all.
It merely destroys one's need for real
music.
It substitutes artificial music for real music and it makes people think that they're engaging in a musical activity when they're actually not.
And it has completely distorted
and turned upside-down
the function of music in anyone's experience.
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"For instance,
if you don't
believe what I said, I was present at a concert, conducted by Stravinsky, of one of his own works.
I was sitting behind a ten-year-old child and his father, and
after the performance
was finished, the child turned to his father and said,
'That's isn't the way it goes.' "
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