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Music is a performance and needs the audience.

In order to do a musical now, a style must be developed that works for today's audience.

The audience, they're not professionals. They just love music. It isn't necessary to play over their heads to be admired.

I mean the public likes it more in Europe than they do here because the state supported organizations have felt that playing contemporary music was part of the education of the public.

The intelligent use of contemporary music in film has an enormous audience.

These wealthy people were very interested in contemporary music. They wanted to help diffuse it and get it to be known to other people.

First, it doesn't surprise me that traditional music has experienced a kind of exhaustion in the 20th century - not forgetting that many musicians started to look outside the traditional structures of tonality.

But you know in the contemporary art world, you pose a very interesting conundrum. All sorts of people collect very contemporary art, yet when it comes to the music which is analogous to that sort of art, they are not interested, or perhaps even hostile.

We were really interested in music from all over the world. We realized that what we were doing was very close to contemporary classical music because of the lack of tonality in the guitar- the fact that I play guitar the way I play.

When I was young, people were almost identified solely by the kind of music they liked. People fell into categories of who liked what.