They get 'em free. I've read that things inanimate have moved, and, as with living souls, have been informed by magic numbers and persuasive sound. Americans are almost ignorant of the art of music, one of the most elevating, innocent and refining of human tastes, whose influence on the habits and morals of a people is of the most beneficial tendency. It is still the form in which the composer tries to come to grips with big emotions. To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.
Nothing separates the generations more than music.
By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes. Extraordinary how potent cheap music is. It is what it used to be. That's what's wrong. Winter Walk at Noon.