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For us music is mainly part of the entertainment world and is often a luxury.

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.

Music is escapism, it's entertainment.

I think the problem starts with the general appreciation of the music in the larger society.

You can enjoy many different types of music. I think that's something more Americans should think about.

Except here it's more power, more energy, younger and also in Europe it's still not only entertainment. Theater or films are looked at as a moral institution. That's why maybe they're so poetic. Here it's clear entertainment.

I think musicians and actors have all these problems, because of the popularity and the opportunity.

Music is always going to be only as sophisticated as the culture that consumes it.

To me, music is entertainment - what else can it be? In fact, it's the only language I know of that's universal.

A lot of people these days are not music lovers - they just want to be famous which is a very different thing to what I grew up believing in.